Just to let people know that on the kanji information page, there is now a link labelled SODA. Clicking on it gives you (smaller) stroke order animations with the direction of strokes indicated.

For users of Anki, highlighting a kanji and pressing Ctrl+5 brings you to the kanji info page on WWWJDIC.

EDIT: not available for all kanji though

The direction is nice, but it uses mincho... I prefer to use the stroke order font with anki; you can have it right there with the answer, you don't have to wait for the animation, it shows direction and it's available for every kanji. There are occasional errors but the author is extremely responsive in accepting corrections and releasing fixes, and I think it won't be long before the RTK1 kanji are all error-free.

cangy Wrote:The direction is nice, but it uses mincho... I prefer to use the stroke order font with anki; you can have it right there with the answer, you don't have to wait for the animation, it shows direction and it's available for every kanji. There are occasional errors but the author is extremely responsive in accepting corrections and releasing fixes, and I think it won't be long before the RTK1 kanji are all error-free.

There are also occasional errors with the WWWJDIC stroke diagrams, at least the old ones.

cangy Wrote:The direction is nice, but it uses mincho... I prefer to use the stroke order font with anki; you can have it right there with the answer, you don't have to wait for the animation, it shows direction and it's available for every kanji. There are occasional errors but the author is extremely responsive in accepting corrections and releasing fixes, and I think it won't be long before the RTK1 kanji are all error-free.

Hi,
that sounds great, can you please tell me how to activate this within Anki?
Thanks a lot in advance

Jarvik7 Wrote:There are also occasional errors with the WWWJDIC stroke diagrams, at least the old ones.

For example?

I know I trust Halpern's diagrams (the "old ones") more than I trust Heisig's.

chochajin Wrote:

cangy Wrote:I prefer to use the stroke order font with anki

Hi,
that sounds great, can you please tell me how to activate this within Anki?
Thanks a lot in advance

find this:

Code:

%(Kanji)s

in the card model answer format and add this directly after it:

Code:

<span style="font-family: KanjiStrokeOrders">%(Kanji)s</span>

What I did when I was using SuperMemo (NB: Do not buy SuperMemo) was write a tool to automatically download stroke orders for all Heisig kanji on WWWJDIC, and number them in the filenames with their Heisig number. Not all of the kanji in RTK1 have SODs, but the vast majority of them do. (The ones that don't are outside the Jōyō and Jinmeiyō sets.)

I found that, after a while, I rarely ever consulted the stroke order diagrams, though, infrequently enough that if I have any doubt, looking up the stroke order in WWWJDIC isn't really much of an extra hassle. If you use Firefox or IE7, you can go to Mycroft and search for "WWWJDIC" to add both WWWJDIC's Japanese dictionary and WWWJDIC's kanji dictionary to your search bar.

- Kef