ChouDoufu 23 Report post Posted March 13, 2009 (edited) Some of you (hopefully) follow nciku's "5 characters a day" blog posts and the nciku blog in general. Those posts can be pretty useful for studying Chinese characters. nciku just came out with a little tool that lets you load a random character with a stroke animation and a short definition. I thought it was pretty cool. You can check it out here: nciku's Random Character Generator For offline practice writing characters I'd recommend a medium sized notebook (I used to write each character I studied at least 36 times). For online practice writing characters, www.skritter.com is pretty nifty. [disclaimer: I work at nciku. (I wasn't involved in making the generator, though.)] Edited March 17, 2009 by ChouDoufu fixing a link. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yersi 42 Report post Posted March 14, 2009 Hi, I love Nciku but when are you guys going to start supporting traditional characters? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HerrPetersen 48 Report post Posted March 14, 2009 Hi 臭豆腐! I second yersi's praise of your site. However I would rather have an option that does (hanzi-->stroke order) instead of (random hanzi generator) or (hanzi-->all kind of information-->stroke order) PS Unfortunatly you messed the link to the Random Character Generator up. (you are linking to http://www.]http.com//blog.nciku.com/blog/en/?page_id=724) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChouDoufu 23 Report post Posted March 17, 2009 I fixed the link. Thanks for the comments. @HerrPetersen: If you search for a single character on nciku, there is a stroke animation at the very bottom of the page. I'll pass on a suggestion to make it easier to get to the stroke information, though. @Yersi: We are working on making traditional characters available on nciku.com. We should finish in the next month or two (it takes time to convert 3 million entries including their examples). If you absolutely must have traditional characters, there is www.nciku.tw--unfortunately the two sites aren't exactly the same, but nciku.tw is 100% pure traditional characters. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites