Kanji Recognizer (v. 2.2.2) Разработано Nikolay Elenkov |
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.
Now offers premium features (history/favorites, export/import, search by reading/meaning, Simeji/OpenWnn/ATOK integration, local stroke order database). You can upgrade form within the application (Settings->Upgrade to premium), no need to download a new application.
Premium upgrade price: around $4.99 (varies slightly by location/exchange rate. Press the 'Upgrade' button to display the Android Market dialog with the current price).
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. History/favorites and search by reading or meaning also available (premium only). Call from within Simeji, OpenWnn/Flick, ATOK or OpenWnn Plus to input characters using handwriting (premium only, Simeji/OpenWnn/Atok Japanese IME install required).
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. Free version offers JLPT N5 and elementary school grade 1 and 2 kanji. Premium versions lets you select all grades/JLPT levels.
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
Features
* Tablet support
* Animated stroke order diagrams (online for free version, offline for premium)
* Kanji writing quiz. Bell/buzzer sounds for right/wrong answer.
* Training mode
* Automatically searches on each stroke for immediate feedback
* Configurable drawing pen size and color
* Shake to delete stroke/all strokes
* Favorites and history (premium only)
* Favorites Excel (CSV) and Anki export (premium only)
* Simeji, OpenWnn/Flick, ATOK, OpenWnn Plus integration (mushroom) (premium only)
* Search by reading and meaning (premium only)
* 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.
Not a handwriting input method (IME).
Ad-supported (ads are removed if you upgrade to premium)
Version 2.0 requires Android 2.1 and later. Earlier Android versions can use version 1.7.2.
Email me for bug reports and feature requests:
kanji.recognizer@gmail.com
Follow me on Twitter for latest updates: @kapitanpetko
http://twitter.com/kapitanpetko
Google+ page
https://plus.google.com/110615818892301408465/
Release announcements and detailed explanation of new features on my blog:
http://nelenkov.blogspot.com/
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[2012-08-10] Josh: Best on the market The paid version has great features that have proven useful like looking up by keyword if you don't know the stroke order. |
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[2012-08-10] Giacomo: Recognises nothing Very difficult to get it to recognise anything. Google translate is better at recognising but terrible at translating. They should be called the other way round |
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[2012-08-04] yuha: doesnt recognize anything terrible. cant recognize anything correctly on first guess. google translate has much better one |
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[2012-07-26] j-chan: Doesn't find the kanji unless... You get the stroke order right... That makes it difficult to use with new kanji, now doesn't it? ㅡㅡ; |
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[2012-07-13] Andrew: Excellent! Great design. Fast and compact. Perfect. |
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[2012-07-09] Jose Augusto: Good ! Excellent running ! |
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[2012-06-16] ferry: Two thumbs up Great application. Very usefull. Eazy use too. |
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[2012-06-13] vpn: update not honest Updated with giant invasive ads, that wasn't mentioned was it. |
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[2012-06-13] Cam: Fantastic. Works great. very helpful. Even has english translation |
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[2012-06-12] Seungkyun: super helpful! this is a very helpful app and i recommend it to everyone :) |
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[2012-06-08] Alin: Great, thx! Great app, even though not perfect: 1. Kunyomi should be shown before onyomi, more clearly with more space or numbers or sth. between the single Readings, ideally in the order of the usage. 2. I'd like to change the order of the info below , I'd show frequency and jlpt level first. 3. Would be great to have some example words ot phrases for each kanji. Would buy an improved the pro version. |
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[2012-06-06] Bradley : Absolute rubbish! |
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[2012-06-02] Ed A.: Good app. v2.2.1 Nice update. They didn't used to have ads though v2.0.1 I use it for wwwjdict. |
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[2012-06-02] Thomas: Very functional And well layed out, except for the on- and kunyomi. The same prnc. is spaced out too similar to how the diff. prnc.`s are. I will probably buy premium when I decide if I'm serious about learning Japanese(helps with my Korean too). |
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[2012-06-02] Akbal: Great app! This is a great app! I see it and I draw it, it recognizes corrects and defines. It would be great to be able to have it recognize multiple kanji at once, but 5 stars as it is a staple in my software collection! |
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[2012-06-01] Michael: Writing test Thank you for the test mode. This is a absolutely wonderful function. Works great, too. |
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[2012-05-24] Ivelina: Awesome! I really needed something so useful. Yey! |
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[2012-05-11] theshonen8899: Must be in correct stroke order. The kanji must be input in the correct stroke order for the character to be properly recognized. This terrible for students who don't know the stroke order for a kanji they don't know. |
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[2012-05-01] martin: Purchase problems I purchased the full version but it only took my money and never upgraded please help me. |
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[2012-05-01] nick: @martin Please contact me by email. Email is in the Play description and About screen of the app (press Menu to access) |
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[2012-04-24] Aaron: Quiz Ruins The Experience The application itself is very useful, however the quiz ruins it. Extremely inaccurate (I have yet to get the kanji for "three" correct). It would be better if it wasn't included until the logic behind it was improved. |
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[2012-04-18] Nicholas: Awesome Love this app. It saves my butt all the times. Sometimes has a hard time recognizing but if i slow down and draw neater it works. Me gusta |
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[2012-04-17] Márk: . Maybe I'm very bad, but I can't imagine what I'm writing badly with the kanji for Fire for it not to recognize it. Otherwise a nice app, still knows way more kanji than I do :) |
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[2012-04-11] Anonymous: Little slow but very useful |
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[2012-04-10] mauro.trevisan: great and useful app Although sometimes the tolerance for recognition is too low. Could help having a setting for this. |
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[2012-04-07] bewkufff: Please update the previous version... This one takes too much time to recognize kanji. |
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[2012-03-25] Jordan: Great! this app will save me so much trouble! I thought it was rather quick |
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[2012-03-14] Roberto: Please fix - too slow! Starts up too slow, and it takes too long to recognize kanji. Previous version was much quicker! |
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[2012-03-10] Whitney: Works perfectly for me Always works for me and I can use it on the subway without an internet connection which is super convenient. As others have mentioned it.only works if you know the right number of strokes and order. I can see how it wouldn't be useful for absolute beginners. |
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[2012-03-06] chive: good easy to use |
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[2012-03-06] Fgg: Love it |
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[2012-02-28] ダビッド クリス: Used to be awesome My fav until i upgraded Now the stroke order doesnt load X-< Why upgrade to just ruin the perfect? |
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[2012-02-24] David: very accurate excellent resource. would love feature listing various compound words making use of a kanji character. |
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[2012-02-19] Wayan: Excellent work!! Really helpfull,,thanks. |
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[2012-02-11] firstname: Miss the old UI Premium upgrade isn't through the market? i'd love to support app development, but buying outside the market, where is the assurance i keep my premium upgrade after an uninstall/reinstall? |
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[2012-02-05] Korey: Pretty good app Pretty good recognition, but there are still many kanji that are not recognized. |
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[2012-01-26] Piper: Amazing. If you're a student and know the basic order of stroke patterns when writing kanji this is perfect. Found my kanji every time! |
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[2012-01-14] Jordan: Works well And it's free |
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[2012-01-13] Shane: The program has worked great, as long as you mind your strokes. I use it when someone uses a kanji I don't know I'm a chat room. Helps a lot! |
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[2012-01-12] Burt: Great Really good. Great for studying on the go. Excellent for memorizing stroke patterns and a great quiz section. |
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[2012-01-07] Lixoarte: Time saver! Works better for me after I turned off "search on stroke". Much faster and more fun than regular e-dictionary. |
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[2012-01-06] Igal: Doesn't recognize kanji No matter how carefully I draw kanji or how simple the shape is, the app can't recognize it and instead displays a series of unreasonable guesses. |
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[2011-12-23] Ashvin: The best for kanji recognition Works great for kanji recognition - an absolutely essential app for the Japanese learner who lacks internet access. Integration with WWWJDIC is also excellent. However, the quiz feature is not quite so great. Obenkyo is better if you want a quiz app. |
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[2011-12-19] Anonymous: Excellent, but Can Still Improve. This app reminds me of the kanji dictionary I had on my DS where I could look up words or characters by writing them. What I would like to see though is a second box for writing compound kanji. The quiz feature is great, though sometimes it's way too picky on how you write even simple characters such as 大. |
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[2011-12-17] dar: perfect! a great application for japanese! |
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[2011-12-12] efren: Wow, I shouldnt have upgraded. Now it takes forever to load the kanji. Also, they are no where near accurate. |
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[2011-11-28] Tyriar: Good Solid app, startup time still is pretty bad though. |
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[2011-11-15] Sowande: Awesome! This app is SO well done, I really enjoy using it. SO well done. -Evo View 4G |
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[2011-11-13] Flamey: Love it. I only wish it would also recognize compound kanji. |
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[2011-10-23] Locke: ! Love this thing, works very well. Took some time before I realized stroke order mattered. Keep up the good work! |
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[2011-10-14] Roy: Great! Just what i needed to read unknown kanji!! Outdones my translator. |
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[2011-10-10] tehlorri: Very useful Love it. Very minor issues with some complex or obscure kanji recognition. Much faster than traditional look up. Has sped up my reading a lot! |
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[2011-10-01] Conrad: Wow, excellent tool for loking up Kanji! When I get the stroke order right it gets the right Kanji every single time. Great tool! |
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[2011-09-30] Michael: Great but needs combination characters e.g. 生=life, grow, student (etc) 糸=thread but 生糸=raw silk... No correct translation if you can't combine them. |
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[2011-09-25] Marcy: Big-Sal Beautiful meanings |
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[2011-09-18] M: Really? Recognizes kanji about as well as a blind squirrel recognizes a highway when he crosses it. |
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[2011-09-08] David: とても便利です ありがとう |
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[2011-09-01] Jon: Does what it's supposed to. Fantastic! |
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[2011-08-07] Boris: No longer working It used to work pretty well, but now even simple kanji not recognized. HTC Evo 2.3 |
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[2011-07-26] Lai: Very easy to use and learn new Kanji characters |
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[2011-07-23] rabs: fore u say it doesn't recognize basic kanji, learn how to write it. not for beginner or stupid ppl. left to right, up to down |
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[2011-07-20] Julia Schuster: Doesn't really recognize basic kanji. Photo recognition would be nice. |
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[2011-07-15] Tracy: Nice addition for it to suggest as you write strokes! This reduces my error rate greatly. |
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[2011-07-09] Foxx: I need this app! cos I'm Japanese.. just updated now and it's got much better than previous one !!! well done guys! galaxy s ginger bread ; ) |
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[2011-07-09] Daniel: Ate battery life. Wouldn't disappear from battery usage list even while not running. Usage was 40% or more. |
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[2011-07-05] Pete: Upgraded to premium for kanji test feature and was blown away. Being able to record, play back and compare to an example is an amazing study aid! |
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[2011-07-01] Juha: New update made it bad |
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[2011-06-30] binary_runner: Failed download of data is not continued and starts from the start - you can't be serious. |
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[2011-06-20] hoaxygen: It's great! The best recognizer I've used so far. Lacks exit button & crashes after 'closing'. Galaxy S |
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[2011-06-09] M M S: Brilliant! |
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[2011-05-31] Fep3: Smth weird happens after update... I try drawing but stroles keep disapearing |
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[2011-05-31] Adam: One of my favorite apps. Very useful, if not essential. |
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[2011-05-29] Puraw Wave: Recognition needs work. Didn't recognize many kanji in correct strike order. Even 2 stroke kanji. |
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[2011-05-26] Shawn: Could incorporate a photo recognition system |
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[2011-05-21] binary_runner: Failed download of data is not continued and starts from the start - you can't be serious. |
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[2011-05-21] nick: use a stable connection for initial download, wifi is recommended. |
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[2011-05-12] James: Works every time! Thanks for adding ability to pay for Ad Removal! |
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[2011-05-08] Amy: Awesome. I wish this was connected to the Obenkyo app. This saves me so much time though , love it! |
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[2011-05-06] Laivine: A good idea, but it is very difficult to write kan A good idea, but it is very difficult to write kanji with my fat thumb. Would be better if all smart phones came with a stylus that would work. |
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[2011-05-02] Ambre: Most the time it doesn't recognize what you draw. Really annoying. |
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[2011-04-29] ae: I like it, but if $2.50 is the half-price upgrade cost, the full price will be expensive. Would be nice if meaning/pronunc. worked via simeji as well. |
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[2011-04-17] Joji: Failed to wrk on Attix 4G. Could not dwnload the files needed to operate. Killed wifi internet. Had to restart it. Uninstalled. Plz fix bug. Ty. |
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[2011-03-21] Horst: Very nice. Works very well for me. Separating different on/kun yomi with commas, or something else, would be great. |
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[2011-03-06] Jeny: Thus is awesome! It not only will recognize he kanji but it tells you what the radical us too. How awesome!! I am pleased. |
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[2011-03-05] tom.day: So-so recognition performance, but great concept, awesome for free app. This is going to come in handy! Samsung GalaxyS 2.2 |
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[2011-02-23] rabs: something was bugging my android is03(japan )so i reset it. good news the bug is gone, bad news this app kinda sucks now. i hate the latest update. |
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[2011-02-15] Rick Ng: This program is good. Nothing like this for Chinese on the Market, but kanji is same as Chinese. I have no problems to get my writing recognised. |
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[2011-02-02] Sean: I was frustrated with this app, it would not recognize simple Kanji. The fix was to switch to the japanese module from the Jap. alternative module. |
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[2011-02-02] the 2/15/2011 I was frustrated with this app, it would not recognize simple Kanji. The fix was to switch to the japanese module from the Jap. alternative module. |
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[2011-01-29] Puraw Wave: Recognition needs work. Didn't recognize many kanji in correct strike order. Even 2 stroke kanji. |
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[2011-01-26] clark_kent: 最高! |
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[2011-01-26] Skwrl: not very inclusive results. ex: could not recognize 合 at all even though its so simple!! have to expand results and look for it. |
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[2011-01-23] PadiCR: useless if you don’t know the correct stroke order... have no sence for me, but it is free... so, thank you |
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[2011-01-23] Cpadi: useless if you don’t know the correct stroke order... have no sence for me, but it is free... so, thank you |
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[2011-01-22] Brian: Doesn't seem to recognize any kanji properly, even with 30 candidates. |
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[2011-01-15] Orion: Shouldn't rely on # of strokes and order but rather the shape/look of the kanji. |
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[2011-01-06] Devotay: Recognizes individual kanji, but not two kanji combined to make a new word . |
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[2011-01-06] David : Recognizes individual kanji, but not two kanji combined to make a new word . |
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[2011-01-02] jimrin: Impressive. Good for training and dictionary lookup. |
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[2010-12-31] Odeki: Doesn't recognise anything at all. Tried different settings, but it doesn't work with any symbols; even with correct stroke order this app is FAIL. |
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