[HN Gopher] KanjiVG - SVGs of Kanji character strokes including ...
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KanjiVG - SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order, shape
and direction
Author : pabs3
Score : 50 points
Date : 2023-02-21 10:26 UTC (12 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (kanjivg.tagaini.net)
(TXT) w3m dump (kanjivg.tagaini.net)
| nathanwh wrote:
| There's also a stroke order font which is used in the Anki deck I
| have for learning kanji. The svgs in the post look great, but as
| far as I can tell there's not an easy way to copy the actual
| kanji character (you can get it from the actual SVG source
| however). The font is nice because as far as the clipboard is
| concerned it's just the character.
|
| https://www.nihilist.org.uk/
| notpushkin wrote:
| It's generated from KanjiVG though:
| https://kanjivg.tagaini.net/projects.html
| nathanwh wrote:
| Oh interesting. I skimmed that page to make sure it wasn't
| already referenced and ironically didn't recognize that the
| kanji were the same as the link I posted. More practice
| needed I guess.
| innocentoldguy wrote:
| KanjiVG is pretty cool. The color coding for radicals and stroke
| orders is nice. Also, parsing and using the SVGs is fairly
| straight forward.
|
| Having owned a couple of books that had the stroke orders wrong
| while I was learning Japanese, I always check for mistakes in the
| stroke orders of kanji like You (right) and Zuo (left) to make
| sure they're correct. KanjiVG gets it right.
|
| On a tangentially related note, I recently purchased an iOS
| Japanese dictionary app called "Nihongo"
| (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nihongo-japanese-dictionary/id...)
| for my daughter because she wanted to study Japanese. I was just
| expecting a basic course, but it is probably the best
| vocabulary/kanji studying app I've ever used. It's a little
| pricey, but well worth it if you're trying to build a strong
| Japanese vocabulary or learning to read kanji. I have no
| affiliation with the people who make the app. I'm just an
| impressed buyer.
| wahnfrieden wrote:
| It's too bad the pitch data out there for Japanese is either
| proprietary or pirated without attribution
|
| Another resource: https://github.com/CaptainDario/DaKanji-Single-
| Kanji-Recogni... someone made an interesting kanji recognition
| lib that hasn't gotten attention
| krackers wrote:
| Given a large enough corpus of spoken lines, could you do some
| ML magic to get the pitch accents (maybe even just FFT and a
| simple classifier would do)? I'm aware that the "base" pitch
| accent does change in context so it's not quite trivial, but it
| seems like you could get pretty close?
|
| Edit: Found https://mizoru.github.io/blog/2021/12/25/Japanese-
| pitch.html
| wahnfrieden wrote:
| The pitch variants are also highly regional but that's an
| interesting idea. I wouldn't want to give it to learners in
| use cases I can think of, when correct data is available
| though (just with licensing headaches/costs)
|
| The correct data already exists, so I'm not sure what the
| point is besides having a less accurate but freer option
| aikinai wrote:
| 99% (or more) of the recordings you might find for training
| would be in the standard accent unless you were
| specifically digging for regional accents.
| bmalicoat wrote:
| KanjiVG is awesome. I used it for a free kanji app I made for iOS
| and Android. Figuring out how to write an SVG parser + renderer
| wasn't as tricky as I thought when I set out to do it.
| https://www.bjmalicoat.com/projects/kanjibook
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