About Kanji Practice
A writing based, minimalistic
flashcard (SRS, Spaced Repetition System)
app for learning
Japanese kanji.
A small tap on the drawing area will show a hint for the next stroke, a
vertical swipe upwards will clear the canvas and restart the current
character.
Key differences from other similar apps:
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Dark colorscheme.
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Minimalistic stroke recognition, so you won't be
frustrated with the app repeatedly failing to accept a correct stroke
(however, it might tolerate an incorrect one).
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No subscription fees, no data privacy concerns. All
your flashcard data is located on your device, so the control is 100%
yours. This also means that for example if you want to make a backup
copy of your learning data from time to time, you will have to use the
the app's menu to manually export them to your device as TSV or JSON
files.
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It's a single HTML file that you can
download to your phone, tablet, or computer
and use it from your local file system in a browser, even without an
internet connection. This also means that you don't have to worry about
an update introducing changes that you don't like. You can even change
the source code if you want to. (Note: the app's data storage in the
browser is associated with its location and file name, so before
changing these, make sure to save your deck of flashcards using the
menu in order to avoid losing them.)
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Since it's completely offline, there's no background
communication with any servers, so it won't start lagging and glitching
while you are practising. This also implies that you will have to
manually save or export your flashcards using the app's menu if you
want to transfer and access them from a different device.
The
source code is available on GitHub.
This software uses stroke data from Ulrich Apel's
KanjiVG
project.
This software uses the
EDICT
and
KANJIDIC
dictionary files. These files are the property of the
Electronic
Dictionary Research and Development Group,
and are used in conformance with the Group's
licence.
Most of the example sentences in the built-in decks come from the
Tatoeba project and the
Tanaka Corpus, which are licensed under
Creative Commons CC-BY.
Built-in Decks
Hiragana
Start learning the Japanese writing system with this deck of flashcards.
Katakana
If you are already comfortable with hiragana, you might want to start
learning katakana.
Basic Kanji
Learn your first 200 kanji through the more than 300 words from this deck
of flashcards. (It contains all the kanji that might come up at the N5
level of the JLPT, and more.)
Lower Intermediate Kanji
If you already know around 100-200 basic kanji, challenge yourself with
the 300 kanji that is included in this flashcard deck. (It contains all
the kanji that might come up at the N4 level of the JLPT, and more.)