Description
Handwritten Japanese kanji recognition and writing quiz. Integrates with WWWJDIC.
** New: Training mode for quiz. Use stroke guidelines and stroke order hints to practice writing kanji correctly. Does not advance to next character until you get it right.
New: Kanji writing quiz. Test yourself based on school year or JLPT level. Check your answers against the proper stroke order using animated diagrams.
Just draw a character, tap ‘Recognize’ and select a candidate to display reading, meaning, radical and more. Copy or share characters to clipboard or other apps.
Test your kanji writing skills by school year or JLPT level: write kanji based on reading and/or meaning hints. Check your score, and compare your writing with the proper stroke order using animated stroke order diagrams.
Follow proper, or at least basic (left to right, top to bottom, horizontal before vertical, etc.), stroke order for best results.
Tips:
- if recognition is slow on your device, try using the compressed model. Open Settings (press the Menu key, or the overflow menu on ICS to display), press ‘Recognition model’ and select ‘JP. comb. compressed’. This should improve startup time and recognition speed.
- you can also increase the search timeout to make sure recognition starts after you finish drawing. Tap ‘Auto-search after’ in Settings and increase the timeout (default is 400 ms)
- if it is still slow, uncheck the ‘Search on stroke’ option in Settings. Candidates won’t be displayed automatically, but on a separate screen.
- draw larger characters for better recognition
Not a handwriting input method (IME).
Ad-supported
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Release announcements and detailed explanation of new features on my blog:
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Tablet support
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Animated stroke order diagrams
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Kanji writing quiz. Bell/buzzer sounds for right/wrong answer.
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Kanji training mode
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Automatically searches on each stroke for immediate feedback
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Configurable drawing pen size and color
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Shake to delete stroke/all strokes
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Compressed model for older/slower devices.
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Works offline (Internet connections is only required to download resources on first run).
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Stroke annotation
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Undo (removes last stroke)
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Integrated kanji database with more than 13,000 entries
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Kanji decomposition into components
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Integration with WWWJDIC for Android (can be used as the handwriting recognition backend)
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Copy/append recognized kanji to clipboard or share to other programs