Kanji Puzzle drills

English version for iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad)

Asahi Kanji application for Android™
Asahi Kanji Puzzle drills

This is an experimental addition to the Asahi Kanji app.
For a presentation of the whole application please see:
https://www.japanese-kanji.com/android/english/asahikanji-en-android.htm

How to use:

Drag the bushu or basic elements (*) into place in order to show the kanji whose meanings, on-yomi and kun-yomi are displayed at the top of the screen.

This type of exercise should be done only after practicing the corresponding visual recognition drills (multiple choice drills).

If you release an element close enough to its correct position, it will automatically move into place.
You can ascertain the correct position of an element with the slightest dragging motion. The element will snap back into place when you release it.

By default, the elements are displayed in various shades of blue to help distinguish between them.
Tap the Colors button draw panel to choose between a solid color and various shades (toggle).

Elements are displayed at random positions.
If they are too tightly packed together, use the Again button to force a new layout.

When a kanji is made up of several similar elements (single strokes, 口, 木 for example), draw panel these are not interchangeable as their size or style can slightly differ.
If these elements snap into place, their position is correct.
The kanji has to be centered inside the guiding frame for the answer to be considered correct.

61 characters out of 2141 cannot be decomposed because they are identical to official bushu, even though some have many strokes like 黄.
These characters have been excluded from the drill.
The other kanji have between two and ten elements.
(*) In a few cases, bushu have been broken down into more basic elements by the author of KanjiVG (see credits below).
In a number of other cases, some bushu have been grouped together.

Once you are satisfied with what you have drawn, tap the Answer button.

You have two ways to build personalized sets.

1) by subtracting

When you mark a kanji as known, it will be removed from future puzzle drills. As you master a set, the number of questions will dwindle.
Start with 60 kanji and repeat the drill until there are no more cards.
2) by adding

You can add kanji you want to concentrate on to the Repeat Puzzle stack. This stack will grow as big as you wish.

About the score and progress

If you leave Asahi Kanji in the middle of a Puzzle drill during which you have not marked any card as "known", you will be able to resume it anytime later where you have left it (same progress, same score), even in the case the app has been killed by the system.

If you have marked cards as "known" during a drill and the app is put to sleep (so that you can answer a phone call or use another app) or if the app is killed by the system when it is in the background (too many apps are opened in the background, low memory, low battery etc.) it will be have to be restarted because of the modified number of kanji to test. Your score and progress will be reset to 0 and the number of cards to test will be modified.

Black theme

About the stroke order

According to the Wikipedia page on stroke order https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroke_order
the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology lets editors freely prescribe a character's stroke order, which all should "follow commonsensical orders which are widely accepted in the society".

Please read the general guidelines on the Wikipedia page and notice the repeated use of the phrase "usually written".
Some Japanese people have forgotten what they have been taught at school in their youth and are not so sure about the "correct" order, so do not overemphasize this order.

Handwriting recognition software generally relies on stroke order and must allow some variants.

Please also note that there are different rules and standards concerning stroke order in different countries.

draw panel (image source: Wikipedia)

ROC is the Republic of China i.e. Taiwan.
PRC is the People republic of China i.e. mainland China.

Credits:

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