To implement the recognition of off-line handwritten Chinese characters is an arduous task. Most of the existing methods have in mind just the small character set. So we combine a double ANN classifier with double feature extraction to implement the recognition of the bigger character set. Our method extracts the double features of one Chinese character and then uses them as inputs to train the double ANNs in parallel. Finally, the post-processing module chooses a more robust result as the recognition output. The comparison between the recognition rates of our method with those of SVM(support vector machine) method, presented in Tables 1 and 2, shows preliminarily that our method is better than the existing SVM method for the recognition of bigger off-line handwritten Chinese character set.