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Each level page makes one PDF for the whole list, and every character page has its own one-page sheet with the stroke order, fading rows and its common words. Your own text goes into the worksheet makers, which also print blank genkouyoushi and tian zi ge paper.
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Kept on this device only. My list and the daily quiz are on the practice page.
Japanese and Chinese stroke order, side by side
KanjiVG records how Japanese schools write each kanji, and Make Me a Hanzi the mainland Chinese order as its data has it. The two share 5,084 code points. Our comparison matches the strokes of both models one by one: 312 of the shared characters are written in a different order, 555 have a different number of strokes, and 1,300 match stroke for stroke. Where they differ, the character page shows both versions with the moved strokes highlighted; look any character up from the kanji lookup or the Chinese stroke order lookup.
The list, with the method and its limits: Japanese vs Chinese stroke order; the rules of both traditions and the differences between the scripts are in the guides.
Where the strokes come from
Japanese strokes are KanjiVG's, drawn as center lines in the order taught in Japanese schools. Chinese strokes are Make Me a Hanzi's, outlines from the Arphic Kaiti fonts with a center line for each stroke. Readings and words come from JMdict, KANJIDIC2 and CC-CEDICT; the 40 Korean letters we drew ourselves. All of it is open: what we changed is free to download on the data page, and every page names the sources it uses at the bottom.
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Stars, the daily quiz streak and the characters you have traced are stored in this browser and nowhere else. The site works offline for the pages you have opened, and the PDFs are made on your device, so a whole level prints in one go.