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Languages Supported: Dutch, English, Japanese

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What's new in version 2.5
  • v2.5.0
  • * Use Japanese font on non-Japanese locales
  • * Scale stroke numbers

Product Details

Release Date: 2010
Date first listed on Amazon: August 10, 2010
Developed By: Nikolay Elenkov
ASIN: B004Y1AFOW

Product features

  • Tablet support
  • Animated stroke order diagrams
  • Kanji writing quiz. Bell/buzzer sounds for right/wrong answer.
  • Kanji training mode
  • Automatically searches on each stroke for immediate feedback
  • Configurable drawing pen size and color
  • Shake to delete stroke/all strokes
  • Compressed model for older/slower devices.
  • Works offline (Internet connections is only required to download resources on first run).
  • 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

Product 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).

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Technical details

Size: 1.5MB
Version: 2.5
Developed By: Nikolay Elenkov
Application Permissions: ( Help me understand what permissions mean )
  • Access information about networks
  • Open network sockets
  • Write to external storage
Minimum Operating System: Android 2.2
Approximate Download Time: Less than 30 seconds

Customer reviews

3.3 out of 5 stars
156 global ratings

Top reviews from the United States

  • Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2018
    Great thing, same as WWWJDIC for Android. I use it both on a daily basis. It is practical, contains a very large amount of information, such as radicals and stroke order. Easy to handle.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2014
    This is a useful tool, though it does take a few attempts to get the right kanji sometimes. It would be very helpful if it could look at the completed picture, regardless of stroke order, and find similar looking kanji, but at least it will force you to consider proper stroke order while using it.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2011
    I tried a bunch of different things, and this never recognized what it was I was trying to input. There is always the chance that I was doing it wrong, but I was looking at my school books and other webpages to make sure while I was doing it.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2012
    I downloaded this app to my tablet because ive used this app on my phone. this is my alltime favorite app! as long as you use the correct stroke order, the app will almost always recognize the kanji you drew. the problem is that the app on the amazon market is outdated! the newer version is on the android market, and is much better. it has quizes and an option to upgrade for even more features
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2017
    Horrible. Even with correct stroke order, it doesn't recognize kanji. The "quiz" is pointless as well.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2013
    Since I am learning japanese and there are a LOT of kanji I don't know yet, this little app seems to help me out a LOT!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2015
    buggy but does what i need it to do when i need it occasionally. good for the free price
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2011
    This app has a lot of potential but just fell short. it is very difficult to draw a kanji in a way that the program actually registers it and there are some kanji that it doesn't even have the definition for even if it matches those in the database.
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  • Benni Wasser
    5.0 out of 5 stars Kanji Recognizer
    Reviewed in Germany on February 17, 2013
    Das Produkt wurde von mir noch nicht richtig getestet - aber der erste Eindruck ist ganz ok.
    Der Download war schnell und unkompliziert.
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  • RobSfe
    4.0 out of 5 stars ben fatta
    Reviewed in Italy on December 7, 2014
    L'applicazione svolge bene il suo dovere, rispettando l'ordine dei tratti infatti trova facilmente il kanji e indica pronuncia on, kun, numero tratti, livello del jlpt. La consiglio a chi non ha un vocabolario perché facilita il lavoro.
  • Danny
    5.0 out of 5 stars Helper
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 5, 2018
    Perfect to use with heisig
  • shishityan
    5.0 out of 5 stars 判別が早く関連応用語句が役立ちます。
    Reviewed in Japan on October 18, 2019
    使いやすいです。手書きの感度が良く、反応が速く安心感充分ですね。
  • Estelle
    3.0 out of 5 stars Pas mauvais
    Reviewed in France on March 15, 2016
    J'ai téléchargé plusieurs applis pour apprendre le japonais en tant que débutante, pour le moment je n'ai toujours pas trouvé... Cette appli est correcte pour dessiner les kanji et elle est recommandée sur des sites français mais de mon côté je gallère toujours. C'est en anglais.