Review Saved Characters with Spaced Repetition | Piko
Frequently asked questions
- How does Piko review characters I have saved?
- With spaced repetition — saved characters come back when they are due, so a few focused minutes a day keeps learning moving.
- Is there a route through Chinese by grade?
- Yes. Common characters are organised by primary-school grade, giving heritage learners a familiar route through Chinese literacy.
- Is spaced repetition free?
- No — spaced review is a Pro feature, along with radical families, learning streaks, achievement badges and grade-by-grade curriculum progress.
- What is free in Piko?
- Photo recognition, the word gallery, word cards and four-way character cards.
The short answer
Saving a character is not the same as knowing it. Spaced repetition brings saved characters back when they become due — a few focused minutes a day keeps learning moving without turning review into a chore.
A familiar route through literacy
Common characters are organised by primary-school grade. For a heritage learner this is the useful structure rather than an arbitrary one: it is roughly the order the characters appear in a child's school life, so the collection stays legible as something they could recognise.
What is free, and what Pro adds
The line is deliberate, and worth stating plainly:
Free: photo recognition, the word gallery, word cards, four-way character cards.
Piko Pro: spaced review, radical families, learning streaks, achievement badges, and grade-by-grade curriculum progress.
Radical families are the one most obviously built for this audience: characters that share a component are often related in meaning, and seeing them together turns a list of unrelated glyphs into a set with structure.
Made for one situation
Piko is built for families raising bilingual children and passing Chinese from one generation to the next. Everything above — photographing real objects, hearing the tones, tracing the strokes — is aimed at a child who already hears this language at home.