春节快乐! (chūnjié kuàilè, Happy Chinese New Year!) Happy year of the Rabbit! Did you have a chance to check out this years’ CCTV New Year’s Evening Gala? Every year hundreds of millions of Chinese people …

Sometimes you just want to do writing prompts for a while, without having to switch gears and think about tones or definitions. Or maybe you want to minimize switching between keyboard and pen/mouse, so you …

Okay, this is the last redesign for the time being, we promise! Don’t worry, it’s not too drastic anyway. We’ve shuffled things around in the home page a bit and moved in two orphaned tools: …

Here’s another one that’s been around for a while, but which you might not have noticed. This time it’s the toughness indicators in the word popup, which help let you know how useful a character …

Have you ever found yourself wanting to mark a word or character for more intensive study later? The analogue equivalent would be something like earmarking a flashcard or highlighting a row in a textbook list. …

I’ve just put Skritter into the Chrome Web Store as an official Google Chrome app, which allows it to live in a cool place on your Chrome New Tab page, as well as make use …

In case you missed it, yesterday we sent out the Skritter January newsletter, which you can read here: Skritter January Newsletter(or here, for China users) If you’re not signed up to get them, you can …

We built this a while ago, but haven’t gotten around to featuring it until now. This is a really cool feature because it allows you to see which words a character is used in, helping …

We have fielded enough inquiries to know that many Skritterers don’t seem to be aware of the awesome power and speed afforded by the keyboard shortcuts on the Study Page. We have a short FAQ …

Skritter users have now learned how to write a combined total of one million characters! That’s a million less scratched heads, anguished sighs of incomprehension, points missed on tests, and delightful animal parts accidentally ordered. …