Important!

I reimplmented DaKanji in dart and flutter therefore this repository will not be updated anymore. All new releases for DaKanji will be published in this repo which merges the desktop and the mobile version.

What is this

DaKanji helps students of the Japanese language and people who use it. Currently, it can recognize 6500+ characters (Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana, Romaji, Arabic Numbers) which the user draws by hand. But the feature set will be vastly improved in the coming releases.
For more details about the features take a look at the usage section.

What the users say

"Your program is like magic! Thank you so much!" - saszai2
"Well thank you for this software! It seems to try and guess in a more "guess-y" way than jisho and even Google which is usually pretty good at guessing, and it just saved me today!" - princess_daphie
"Amazing. I can write kanji messier than a professor and it still picks it up. Very reliable." - Seth Kitchens

Getting started

The easiest way is to download the app for android from the PlayStore. You can also download the latest release from the releases page.

Usage

In this section the features of the app are explained in more detail.

Handwritten kanji recognition

The user can draw a character in the UI and the app will predict which character was drawn. This prediction can then be opened in a dictionary of choice. A dictionary can be chosen in the settings. Those dictionaries include translation apps, app dictionaries, and web dictionaries.
Currently, 6500+ characters are supported. All supported characters can be found here.

Contributing

All contributions are welcome!
Here is a list of a few things which would help this project:

For testing (beta) releases please join the discord server and ask in the "become a tester"-channel. All testing is much appreciated!
If you have ideas how to improve this app open an issue.
You found a bug? Please open an issue too.

Credits

Design
- icon / banner
  - Thanks "Buddha, with kudos to 2ch/fl/ and HatNyan" for helping design the icon and the banner.
  - Thanks Adrian Jordanov for the font.
- UI
  - Shout out to Nurellina! Without your help the app would not look and feel half as good as it does now
Modified Packages: bitmap, snappable
A big shout out to all testers!
- Android
  - pa9eup, tsumugii_12
- iOS
  - Nurellina

Notes

For various reasons, I decided to no longer make the code of DaKanji publicly available. Therefore the source code of this repository will not be updated anymore. However, the release section will always have the newest releases. Also, bugs can be reported here and I will take care of them.