Shukudai it a tool for practicing japanese hiragana handwriting. It can generate two different types of PDF worksheets at the moment.
This type of sheet consists of 12 kanjis, each with it's corresponding romaji-style pronounciation and meaning. Below each pronounciation there are vertical boxes which can be filled with the corresponding kanas. There is the option to write the word in hiragana or katakana. The sheets look like this:
Download the sample PDF from the picture above.
To generate those sheets use the kanjikana subcommand:
$ shukudai kanjikana --seed 123 --jlpt 2 --kana hira --output sheet_123.pdf
# or
$ shukudai kanjikana -s 123 -j 2 -k hira -o sheet_123.pdf
# to generate a sheet with the answer in katakana use the following option
$ shukudai kanjikana -k kana -o kanji_katakan_sheet.pdf
# don't specify a seed and kana option to generate a random sheet
# with answer in hiragana
$ shukudai kanjikana -o random.pdf
If you have just started learning hiragana and katakana, this type of worksheet helps you practice handwriting of individual kanas:
Download the sample PDF from the picture above.
To generate one use the kana subcommand:
$ shukudai kana --char せ --output sheet_se.pdf
# or just
$ shukudai kana -c せ -o sheet_se.pdf
# or for katakana
$ shukudai kana -c セ -o sheet_se.pdf
The easiest way to run shukudai is using the container inside this repo. The container contains a propper CKJ-font to render japanese characters as well as the dictionaries required to determine each kanjis meaning and pronounciation.
Build and run the container as shown below:
$ git clone https://github.com/ingobecker/shukudai.git
$ cd shukudai
$ podman build -t shukudai .
$ podman container runlabel exec shukudai -- kanjikana -s 123 -o sheet_123.pdf
This will create a file called sheet_123.pdf in the current working directory using the seed 123.