Korean names a Hanja by its meaning, then its sound; simplified Chinese
shares some radicals' forms with Japanese (麦), which showed twice, and
writes 黑 as itself. A test can read a language's strokes beforehand.
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Parity with Japanese's kanji and kana:
- The characters' tab is named by its language (Hanzi, Hangul & Hanja,
Alphabet), its groups too: HSK levels and the characters in common use
(Hong Kong's grades for traditional ones); Hangul and the Hanja taught
in schools; Greek's letters. Radicals for Chinese and Korean in their
own forms (讠 for 言 in simplified Chinese), none for Greek.
- A character's readings are named as its language names them: On and
Kun, Pinyin, Eum and Hun (음, 훈); a letter means its sound and name.
- How characters are written comes by language: Chinese from Make Me a
Hanzi (its medians in KanjiVG's square, Arphic Public License, a data
file beside the app, never in cards), the Hangul letters drawn by the
curator; a Korean word is written letter by letter (닭: ㄷ ㅏ ㄺ). Words
of alphabets (German, Greek) aren't written by hand.
- A Chinese word's pinyin is typed in a session, tone numbers turning
into marks (ni3 → nǐ); KRDict's levels (초급, 중급, 고급) tag Korean
words; a Korean word's pronunciation shows in brackets ([가치]).
- Smaller: Look up in the composer keeps a noun's article; the Watch
filter names its level list; hints and placeholders by language.
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Beside Words and Kanji & kana, a Radicals tab lists the 214 Kangxi
radicals by their strokes, with the forms Japanese writes them as inside
kanji (亻, 氵, 艹, …). One chosen lists the kanji KANJIDIC2 files under
it, in the dictionary's order, to add or to see how one is written; the
tab shares the characters' bloc, so a kanji added there shows as held in
a search too.
The curator labels each kanji with its classical radical (`radical:N`),
so the server's existing label queries serve the tab unchanged. Its
files now say which conversion made them (`.conversion`): an instance
running a curator that converts differently converts again at once,
rather than at its weekly update, so the radicals appear right after a
deploy.
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The study option Write by hand (settings schema 7) has character cards
and words written in a session, on a schedule of their own (review mode
`write`; older apps skip a mode they don't know): what to write on top, a
character's meanings and readings or a word's reading and meanings, and
below it a square to write it in, character by character.
Each stroke is checked as it ends against KanjiVG's: both resampled to 22
points, then their shape once centred, where they lie, how long they are
and which way they go, each against what a loose hand strays by; a stroke
closer to one still to come is out of order. One that counts is drawn as
KanjiVG draws it, and the hand's offset from the middle is forgiven in the
strokes after; any other flashes red, says why and counts as a mistake, as
does a hint. Two misses in a row show the next stroke faintly. Once
written, or given up on (Show it), the rating the mistakes suggest is
outlined: none Good, one or two OK, more Bad.
The square takes every touch on it at once, so writing never scrolls the
card or swipes to rate. Characters without a stroke order (in a word) are
written for the person.
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KanjiVG's strokes come with the app (assets/kanjivg/, CC BY-SA 3.0, its
notice in the licence list): 94 gzipped files, one per 256 code points,
2.7 MB in all, a file read the first time a character of it is asked for
(StrokeRepository, app-wide beside the maps). The strokes are SVG path
data, read with path_parsing (the Flutter team's, pure Dart, already in
the build through flutter_svg), so the model can flatten them into points
without dart:ui, as checking handwriting will.
A character's sheet traces its strokes in order over those to come, with
its stroke count, meanings, readings, level and the components KanjiVG
splits it into, each a tap away. It opens from a studied character's
answer (Stroke order) and from a character found in the dictionary.
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