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KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order, shape and direction

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Re: KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order, shape and direction

#13

This 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

(Caveat: there are a handful of cases where the Chinese and Japanese stroke orders differ, so take care treating these as equivalent.)

Re: KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order, shape and direction

#14
I used this in my Anki deck for John Heisig's Remembering the Kanji. The stroke ordering was helpful and it was animated with CSS. It's been a while, so I can't remember who to give credit to for the RTK deck or the CSS animations.

I also built a little tool that would expand out the Kanji character into its constituent radicals and Heisig primitives so I could at them to my study code.

At that time, I was reading NHK Web News Easy on a regular basis and wanted to study those characters with Heisig's visual approach.

Re: KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order, shape and direction

#15

This 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

> This 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.

Well "kanji" literally means "Han character".

Re: KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order, shape and direction

#17
post #3

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

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

This linked article seems to have gotten special access to the data -- unfortunately only the resulting model is available.

Re: KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order, shape and direction

#20
I'd never really understood just how complex these characters can be. Sure, there's a lot going on at first glance, but seeing the stroke order and direction, and imagining the process, really hammers it home to this monolingual American.
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