Learn to write Kanji

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I don’t use any apps for this, but there are several handy scripts that will display the stroke order for WaniKani kanji. I believe this one is currently working:

[Userscript] Stroke Order Diagram

This is a fork of the original Stroke Order script which has recently started having a few issues. The original author @looki does not seem to be around anymore, so with a fix from @killergerbah I will take up maintenance of this script. Unless of course @looki comes back and is against it. Stroke Order Diagram Inserts stroke order diagrams from Jisho into reviews, lessons, and kanji pages. [image] Available at WaniKani Stroke Order

I personally prefer this one generally, because it’s less obtrusive, but I don’t think it’s currently working for me. Hopefully the author will find a fix soon.

[Userscript] An Unobtrusive Kanji Stroke Order

This is a third-party script/app and is not created by the WaniKani team. By using this, you understand that it can stop working at any time or be discontinued indefinitely. A minimalist perspective on the Kanji Stroke Order userscript. @looki’s stroke order script is nice, but the diagrams for some busy kanji tend to get rather wide and quite inconvenient to use, so I made a version that works for me (and could be of use for someone else). No external dependencies, but you need …

Yomichan will also show you the stroke order of any kanji in any word that you mouse over, though I’m slightly hesitant to recommend it now because the creator just stopped maintaining it. But it’s a popular tool and is open source, so someone else will probably take up the mantle for it.

There are also these printable kanji sheets made by a WK user, which you can print for free and practice writing the kanji in the order that you learn them on WK:

Want to write Kanji?

Hello Wanikani Community! I’m learning Japanese for almost 3 years. 2 years ago, when I was jobless for a few months, I started writing Kanji, according to the strokes. It was fun; it was interesting, it was engaging. After that, I got a job, moved to Tokyo. It was then when I was introduced to Wanikani. Wanikani said It’s the future, and everything is digital! I agreed because it’s true. I don’t write Kanji anywhere except when I’m filling the forms in offices. B…