KanjiVG Explorations

07/05/15

So, my Japanese Study Tool is taking a more coherent shape. It's pretty exciting, Stephan. And now I really want to expand on the whole system.

Well, I want to expand upon the kanji setup of the tool a lot, overall. I want the vocabulary and the kanji learning themselves to be properly separated. So, I need to learn the words, and learn the spelling, and learn the kanji.

The step to learning the kanji is having a good system for the learning the proper stroke order. As I have mentioned before, jisho.org has good resources on this.

Specifically, there's KanjiVG, an SVG setup describing the shape, direction, and radical (sub-kanji) composition of each kanji. I think this, mixed with the graphical library D3, which has svg-related tools that should make generation of stroke-order diagrams quite possible.

I think this will be the next thing I play with for this tool. I'm finding myself consistently wanting to see the stroke-order for kanji I have not mastered.