kanji

This is my personal vocab list to learn the Japanese Kanji which is using J.W. Heisig/R. Rauther's "Die Kanji - lernen und behalten 1" Since I'm using the German version of the book (and my native language is German) the cards are Japanese-German. I'm following the guide of the book, only implementing hints if I have troubles with memorizing the words. Feel free to base your vocab list off of mine via a fork, that's probably the best way to go ahead.

Import

I'm using Anki as my vocab program with the Addon CrowdAnki to export in a diff-friendly json-file. You can easily add it to yout Anki setup via the code given on its AnkiWeb page. From there it's a simple File -> CrowdAnki: Import git repository.

If you're using different Anki applications, please see the release section for .apkg files. These will not be as up to date as the json files used by CrowndAnki.

Contributing

If you find a mistake, or have other ideas on how to improve the deck, please don't hesitate to open a new issue!

This deck is maintained using the CrowdAnki add-on. If you want to contribute corrections or improvements yourself, follow these steps:

1. Make changes to the deck.
2. Install the CrowdAnki add-on.
3. Fork and clone this repository.
4. Use Export -> CrowdAnki Json representation on the deck and chose the repository's base directory.
5. Commit the changes, and submit a pull request to this repository.

Disclaimer

Hints are only sporadically used and can only be expected for difficult kanjis in the first few hundred cards for now.

To get the Kanji unicode characters I used this Kanji recognition site. Seems a lot faster than having to rely on Google Translate (plus I don't have to use Google, which is a benefit in itself.)

Primitves

I've been adding the seperately listed primitives as well, although that has some issues connected with it: Some/most of the primitives listed seperately do not have a unicode character associated with them. Thus I've been using two strategies:

1. Choosing a simple kanji which uses this primitive and stating with part of this kanji is meant
2. Misusing another unicode character which looks pretty much the same. For example for "Besen" as used in "雪" uses the charakter "ヨ" ("yo" from Katakana).

Both of these strategies are not optimal and I'm currently looking into other options. Inserting pictures does not seem optimal to me as well since those are heavily font-dependent. Reccommendations on how to solve this issue are always welcome.

Composites

Composites are added to the last kanji learned to completely understand the composite. E.g. "週末" (Wochenende) is added at "週" (no. 340), not "末" (no. 230).

Fonts

For Kanjis I'm using the IPAGothic font, for the stroke order I'm using Timothy Eyre's (or is it Ulrich Apel's? It's not quite clear to me.) great font I found on his website. The licenses for these fonts can also be found in the licenses folder of this git repository. I believe me distributing these fonts with this project is not a breach of contract, but I am also not a lawyer.

License

MIT

(Fonts seperate)