Magic Mirror² Hanzi

This is a Magic Mirror² module that rotates between Chinese characters (hanzi), their pronunciation (in pinyin) and the translation in English. Every Chinese Mandarin language learner will appreciate this learning tool.

Magic Mirror² is open source software for creating a powerful dashboard mostly for home use.

Magic Mirror² Hanzi is based on the Chinese Mandarin HSK test vocabulary and you can configure up to 6 levels of difficulty.

The interval of the rotation of the characters is also configurable.

Preview Screenshot

This is how Magic Mirror² Hanzi looks in my configuration:

Installation

Clone this repository into your MagicMirror modules folder.

Example:

cd /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules
git clone https://github.com/tderflinger/MMM-Hanzi.git

Edit your configuration file under config/config.js with the following configuration.

{
  module: "MMM-Hanzi",
  position: "top_left",
  config: {
      hskLevel: 2, // up to six levels available
      interval: 300000 // rotation speed in ms
  },
},

Config Options

Option	Description
`hskLevel`	HSK difficulty level, number from 1 to 6
`interval`	Rotation time of Hanzi in ms

Testing

I have tested the Magic Mirror² Hanzi module on an Raspberry Pi 3B with Raspberry OS and Node 16.15.0 and Magic Mirror² version 2.19.0.

References

Magic Mirror²: https://magicmirror.builders

HSK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanyu_Shuiping_Kaoshi

Source of HSK Hanzi Vocabulary Files: https://github.com/clem109/hsk-vocabulary

License

MIT License