TUtutubuilds·Apr 26, 2025
Oops sorry misread your original question.
I am using this:https://github.com/skishore/makemeahanzi
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6 sourcesThis looks very much like Make Me A Hanzi (MMAH), which is exactly the same (Chinese) characters. It's just that Japanese knows those as Kanji.
https://github.com/skishore/makemeahanzi
In KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order, shape and directionShow HN: Hanzi.gg – Wordle-inspired Chinese character guessing game
Tap on a character to reveal the strokes, radicals and components it has in common with the character you're trying to guess.
This was designed mainly for learners but I'm curious to hear from fluent hanzi readers whether the game is too easy.
The vocabulary is from the Chinese Vocab List project [1]. Character graphics and data are sourced from Make me a Hanzi [2].
There are 95 pre generated games at the moment which are randomly chosen, more will be added soon. Suggestions welcome!
[1] https://github.com/kerrickstaley/Chinese-Vocab-List
[2] https://github.com/skishore/makemeahanzi
13 points · Open discussionShow HN: FluentCard – Flutter app for practicing Chinese
https://fluentcard.com/
I made this app using Flutter over the past several months, and thought about it a lot longer than that. I've been learning Chinese for a while, and I'm somewhere in the back half of HSK4 in terms of fluency.
At its heart FluentCard is a flashcard app, but it has features around writing and it works entirely offline after the initial data download.
For most of my studies, I've been using Anki to practice. While I am extremely appreciative of Anki and its community, I found in learning Chinese it lacked a few things I really needed:
- Ease of creating new flashcards. I'd often be in a situation where I didn't know how to translate a word or sentence, and wanted to note it down for later translation.
- Writing. In Chinese, not only are the characters themselves important, but the order of strokes. I had my own simple
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workflow for it, but it wasn't ideal.
- Sentences. The app finds words you don't have sentences for, and prompts you to create them. I'm working on a grammar pattern builder feature now to generate sentences too.
Other Chinese specific apps were great, but they often focused on beginners and didn't work offline - and one of the prime times for studying I had was while commuting to/from work in the subway.
Feedback would be greatly appreciated, both on the technical side (the last mobile app I made was for BlackBerry!) as well as from a practicality/feature side.
It uses data for strokes from this amazing project by Shaunak Kishore: https://github.com/skishore/makemeahanzi
Author references the makemehanzi project: https://github.com/skishore/makemeahanzi
In Hanzi Writer – JavaScript library for Chinese character stroke order animationsFor stroke-level information, you'll probably want something like https://github.com/skishore/makemeahanzi (for Chinese) or https://github.com/kanjivg/kanjivg (for Japanese).
In Describing Chinese Characters with Recursive Radical Packing Language