Study settings
Your dictionary
Your dictionary grows as you study. Each word in progress has a stage and a next review date. You can add your own words at any time, mark a familiar word with Already know and return it to learning later.
Where words come from
- From sessions — new words at your level are added as you work through material.
- By hand — you can look up and add any word yourself.
- From materials — words in texts, dialogues and breakdowns can be taken into your dictionary as you read.
Tomyo first chooses new words from your current level, then may move to the next once you have mastered it. A word added by hand is available for study regardless of that boundary.
Tags and collections
These are ways to group words you have already added, not a separate source. A collection does not add words to your dictionary and does not create new ones — it gathers existing ones so they are easier to work with.
Grouping does not affect the review schedule: a word in a collection comes back on its own due date, not together with the rest of the collection.
A bigger dictionary means a longer queue
Every word you add is not one encounter but a series of reviews stretching months ahead. So build your dictionary with an eye on how much time you can give to studying: a hundred words added in one evening return as a hundred reviews.
Choosing the word to add
If a written form has several readings, choose the pinyin and meaning you need. These are separate cards with separate progress. Words you add without a level have a No level filter; your profile HSK setting does not hide them from your dictionary.
Words from the extension
A connected Chrome extension can add words from the pages you read to this same dictionary. Until an account is connected, words remain in the browser. The extension is currently in a pilot. A saved sentence does not become a personal example automatically.