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Journey map
Journey is the My progress tab where the words of your HSK level build up a map: the Great Wall, then Xi’an, Chengdu and Chongqing. Each brick is one word of the level, and the milestones on the map mark how many words you have taken into study and how many you have mastered.
Who can see the map
The map is available to anyone studying HSK 1 to HSK 4 — on the website and in the apps. At higher levels there is no Journey tab yet.
On the website, My progress opens straight on the map. You can also reach it from the home screen: on a wide screen the header shows a piece of the map with the nearest milestone and a line saying how many words are left — clicking the milestone opens Journey. In the apps, My progress opens from the More button next to the level rings, and Journey is the first tab.
Levels on the map
- HSK 1 — the Great Wall at the Shanhaiguan pass.
- HSK 2 — Xi’an, where the Silk Road begins.
- HSK 3 — Chengdu.
- HSK 4 — Chongqing: an overall panorama and four districts, each holding its own share of the level’s words.
The first three levels form one map you can scroll through. The next city appears on it as soon as the first word of the next level is in your dictionary; the map does not let you skip a level. If you did not start at level one, the earlier levels are not drawn: the journey begins at a tower that names them.
Chongqing opens as a separate map in place of the first three. Once every HSK 4 word is in your dictionary, a preview of the next chapter — Suzhou — appears on the panorama.
What a brick means
Each brick or cell on the map is one official word of the level. There are three states, the same as in the legend:
- Mastered — the word is at one of the two top stages, that is, Known.
- In progress — the word is already in your dictionary, even if you have not reviewed it yet.
- Ahead — the word is not in your dictionary: the map shows an empty dashed outline.
Tap a started brick to open the word card: character, audio, pinyin and translation. On the first three levels, bricks are laid in the order you took words into study, and they keep their place when a word becomes mastered.
Milestones
Flags, towers, bridges and gates on the map are milestones. A level’s first milestones count words taken into study, so a reward comes in the very first days. The rest count mastered words, and the last one requires mastering the whole level.
Tap a milestone to see how many words are left and what will appear on the map once you reach it. Each milestone brings the world on the map to life: for example, lanterns light up by the wall or birds appear over a tower.
On the Great Wall the sky changes not with the clock but as your mastered words grow: from dawn through day and sunset to a starry evening, and a festival once the whole level is mastered. In the Chongqing districts the atmosphere also depends on the share of mastered words.
Certificates
On the website, the cards for all of a level’s milestones sit below the map. A reached milestone has a Share button: it prepares a vertical certificate card you can send to a messenger or save as an image. Once every milestone of a level is reached, its cards collapse, and Show stones expands them again.
Website and apps
The map itself is the same everywhere: the same bricks, milestones and word cards. In the apps you can expand it to full screen. Milestone cards, certificates and the new-milestone notice are website-only for now, as is the piece of the map in the home screen header.