Huan Le Huo Ban: every lesson's characters, P1 to P6

Huan Le Huo Ban (欢乐伙伴) is MOE's Chinese textbook for primary school: two books a year, 1A and 1B up to 6A and 6B. Since 2024 a new edition, 欢乐伙伴2.0, has been moving up the school one level a year. MOE has published its lists for P1 to P3 so far; P4 to P6 are still on the old books.

Below is every lesson's characters for all six levels as MOE lists them: to read (识读字) and to write (识写字), Standard and Higher Chinese. Tap your child's level.

To make them stick past Friday's 听写, pick your child's level below: I'll email you lessons 1 to 3 of it as an Anki deck, free, with audio, pinyin and English on every card.

Your child's homework says 欢乐伙伴 3A, lesson 5, and you can't tell which characters that lesson covers. MOE publishes them, but as PDFs in Chinese, one per edition and track.

You're in good company. In the 2020 Census, about 3 in 4 Chinese children aged 5 to 14 in Singapore spoke English most often at home. For most of our kids, Chinese is a school subject closer to a foreign language.

I'm Joshua. We speak English at home too, and P1 Chinese was a struggle for my daughter. Below is every 欢乐伙伴 lesson's characters, P1 to P6, readable on your phone. The free sample is lessons 1 to 3 of your child's level, from the deck I built to make them stick.

Every lesson brings a new batch of characters to read. Friday's 听写 tests them once, and without review, words learnt for Friday fade fast.

Spaced repetition fixes the timing: each word comes back right before your child would forget it. In 1885 the German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus found that 38 repetitions spread over three days worked as well as 68 crammed into one day.

That's what the deck does with the lists above, lesson by lesson, 10-15 minutes a day. Anki decides what to review and when; your child taps a button to rate how well they remembered.

The list is the easy part. Drilling for Friday puts the words in short-term memory, and a week later the brain has let most of them go. More drilling runs the same cycle faster.

What works is timing. Spaced repetition shows each word right before your child would forget it, so every successful recall pushes the next review further out. Ebbinghaus measured it in 1885: 38 repetitions spread over three days worked as well as 68 crammed into one day.

Within 4 months, my daughter could read and recognise every P1 word. 10-15 minutes a day, no tuition, and the algorithm decided what to review and when.