Chinese Radicals Deck+

UPDATE (07.01.2024) : Improved pinyin and added stroke order

This is an Anki flashcards deck for learning the Chinese Radicals. The Radicals are the building blocks for the Chinese Characters, but can also be found in Japanese and Korean Language. The cool thing is, if you have studied the radicals you can guess the meaning and pronunciation of a character, though you have not learned it yet. You can also build up mnemonics for Chinese characters from it. For example for the character 好 which means good:

女 + 子 = 好

Meaning: woman + child = good, well (好 hǎo)

"When a woman sticks to her child, it is good" The Deck is automatically generated from a Python script. You can have a look at the project at https://github.com/jay-pee/Anki-Chinese-Radicals-Deck-Plus

Fields

• Hanzi (Character)
• Pinyin (Romanization)
• English (Definition)
• Kanji Radical Number
• Alternatives (Radicals have sometimes multiple glyphs)
• Sound (TTS Pronunciation)
• Ancient Character (Image from zdic.net)
• Examples (Characters where the Radical is used)

Get the most of this deck If you want to learn the radicals as fast as possible I would advice you to add some addition information to this cards. Here are some tips of what you can do:

• Add images, that you have looked up and you think it fits best to the character to the deck.
• Add an annotation that says something about the radical: How does it look like? Does the ancient scripture reminds you on something?
• …

Acknowledgment Thank you to ccdb.hemiola.com (API for Chinese Characters), zdic.net (for the Ancient Scripture Images) HanziJS (for the Examples), audio-cmn and Chen Wang (for the high quality audio) and the python pinyin module.