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.
Kanji writing quiz. Test yourself based on school year or JLPT level. Check your answers against the proper stroke order using animated diagrams.
Premium features: history/favorites, export/import, search by reading/meaning, Simeji/OpenWnn/ATOK integration, local stroke order database. You can upgrade form within the application (Settings->Upgrade to premium), no need to download a new application.
Premium upgrade price: around $4.99 (varies slightly by location/exchange rate. Press the 'Upgrade' button to display the Play Store dialog with the exact local price).
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. History/favorites and search by reading or meaning also available (premium only). Call from within Simeji, OpenWnn/Flick/ATOK/OpenWnn Plus to input characters using handwriting (premium only, Simeji/OpenWnn/Atok Japanese IME install required).
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. Free version offers JLPT N5 and elementary school grade 1 and 2 kanji. Premium versions lets you select all grades/JLPT levels.
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
Features
* Tablet support
* Animated stroke order diagrams (online for free version, offline for premium)
* Kanji writing quiz. Bell/buzzer sounds marks answer
* Training mode
* Automatically searches on each stroke for immediate feedback
* Configurable drawing pen size and color
* Shake to delete stroke/all strokes
* Favorites and history (premium)
* Favorites Excel (CSV) and Anki export (premium)
* Simeji, OpenWnn/Flick, ATOK, OpenWnn Plus integration (mushroom) (premium)
* Search by reading and meaning (premium)
* Compressed model for older/slower devices
* Works offline (Internet connections only required for initial download).
* Stroke annotation
* Undo (removes last stroke)
* Integrated kanji database with more than 13,000 entries
* Kanji decomposition into components
* Integration with WWWJDIC for Android (can be used as the handwriting recognition backend)
* Copy/append recognized kanji to clipboard or share to other programs.
Not a handwriting input method (IME).
Ad-supported (ads are removed if you upgrade to premium)
Version 2.0 requires Android 2.1 and later. Earlier Android versions can use version 1.7.2.
Email for bug reports and feature requests:
kanji.recognizer@gmail.com
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Release announcements and detailed explanation of new features:
http://nelenkov.blogspot.jp/search/label/kanji-recognizer
Aaron
Apr 24, 2012 5:41:39 PM
Quiz Ruins The Experience The application itself is very useful, however the quiz ruins it. Extremely inaccurate (I have yet to get the kanji for "three" correct). It would be better if it wasn't included until the logic behind it was improved.
Nicholas
Apr 18, 2012 3:06:02 PM
Awesome Love this app. It saves my butt all the times. Sometimes has a hard time recognizing but if i slow down and draw neater it works. Me gusta
Márk
Apr 17, 2012 8:28:44 PM
. Maybe I'm very bad, but I can't imagine what I'm writing badly with the kanji for Fire for it not to recognize it. Otherwise a nice app, still knows way more kanji than I do :)
Anonymous
Apr 11, 2012 2:08:00 AM
Little slow but very useful
mauro.trevisan
Apr 10, 2012 1:50:44 PM
great and useful app Although sometimes the tolerance for recognition is too low. Could help having a setting for this.
bewkufff
Apr 7, 2012 11:55:45 PM
Please update the previous version... This one takes too much time to recognize kanji.
Jordan
Mar 25, 2012 12:38:44 PM
Great! this app will save me so much trouble! I thought it was rather quick
nick
Mar 15, 2012 2:04:12 AM
@Roberto Use the compressed model to improve performance on slower devices. (press Menu)->Settings->Recognition model, select 'Jp. comb. compressed'.
Roberto
Mar 15, 2012 12:01:54 AM
Please fix - too slow! Starts up too slow, and it takes too long to recognize kanji. Previous version was much quicker!
Whitney
Mar 10, 2012 3:33:34 PM
Works perfectly for me Always works for me and I can use it on the subway without an internet connection which is super convenient. As others have mentioned it.only works if you know the right number of strokes and order. I can see how it wouldn't be useful for absolute beginners.