Kanji Grid for Anki 23.10+ with improvements and bug fixes.
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Open Anki.
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On the top menu, go to
Tools
>Add-ons
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Click
Get Add-ons...
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Input
1610304449
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Click
OK
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Restart Anki.
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On the top menu, go to
Tools
>Generate Kanji Grid
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Select the deck to generate from with the
Deck
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Select the card field to check for kanji with the
Field
dropdown or type in multiple fields to check.Use the following format for searching multiple fields:
field1 field2 "field with spaces"
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Optionally, edit any of the other settings to your liking.
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Click
Generate
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Before troubleshooting your issue, restart Anki. Especially after updating addons, Anki can break if you do not restart.
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On Linux, some users have experienced issues with crashing when generating the grid. If this happens, try changing Anki to
Vulkan
orSoftware
renderer.Tools
>Preferences
>Appearance
>Video driver
>Vulkan
orSoftware
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In some cases, if you have edited the config file, you may run into issues. You can fix this by resetting the config:
Tools > Add-ons > Kanji Grid Kuuube > Config
,Restore Defaults
,Save
, Restart Anki.
Documentation for the Kanji Grid config.
Config Keys and Values
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pattern
The default text in theField
dropdown box. Controls which field(s) to look for kanji in. Defaults to the first field of the selected deck if no value is found. -
interval
The default text in theCard interval considered strong
box. Sets the interval for cards to be given the Strong color on the grid. -
groupby
The default setting in theGroup by
dropdown. The first dropdown item is number 0. -
sortby
The default setting in theSort by
dropdown. The first dropdown item is number 0. -
lang
The default setting in theLanguage
dropdown. This controls fontcss and search options. -
unseen
Whether or not to display kanji that has not been viewed yet in the deck. -
tooltips
Whether or not to display tooltips when hovering over kanji in the grid. -
kanjionly
Whether or not to only show kanji in the grid. -
saveimagequality
The quality to save the grid at when seletingSave Image
on the grid. Accepted values are 0-5. WARNING: On large grids using anything except1
may crash anki. -
onclickaction
Changes what happens when a kanji character is clicked on.-
""
: Does nothing. -
"browse"
(Default): Opens the Anki note browser. -
"copy"
: Copies the character. -
"search"
: Searches the character in a web browser.
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saveimagedelay
The delay in ms to wait when resizing the image ifsaveimagequality
is not 1. Setting this to a higher value may help mitigate crashes. -
jafontcss
zhfontcss
zhhansfontcss
zhhantfontcss
kofontcss
vifontcss
The css to apply to the grid for the respective language. This is intended to be used for fonts but accepts all css. For fonts, use the following syntax:font-family:%s;
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jasearch
zhsearch
zhhanssearch
zhhantsearch
kosearch
visearch
The search option to provide for the respective language. Use%s
to define the kanji's position in the search string. -
searchfilter
The default setting forAdditional Search Filters
. This is appended to the existing filtering and must use the same format as Anki's Browser Searching.
See: Kanjigrid Timelapse.
Changelog compared to the old kanji grid add-on.
Improvements
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Field selector now uses a dropdown/text box combo instead of a text box.
The default field value can be overwritten by setting
pattern
inconfig.json
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All decks can be searched at once by selecting
*
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Key and key label are now centered.
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Kanji grid and header line now fill the entire window width.
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Background color is no longer hardcoded and will adapt to your Anki theme.
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Default window size is larger to better fit modern display resolutions.
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Kanji are rendered in a dynamic grid that will adapt to window size instead of a static table.
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Automatically set language tag based on grouping and manual language tag setting.
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Added better counts and percentages to grids.
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Added context menu items for copying, browsing, and searching when right clicking a kanji tile.
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Setup window now has tabs for
General
,Advanced
, andData
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Saving and resetting settings can now be done in the setup window.
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Config validation and safer loading to help prevent crashes.
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Added option to copy kanji on click instead of searching in a web browser.
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Added option to search in the Anki note browser instead of a web browser when clicking on kanji.
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Added option for Additional Search Filters.
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Option to set custom fonts per language setting.
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Search option when clicking on a kanji is customizeable for each language.
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Added option to sort within groupings.
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Moved config values out of
defaults
object to allow Anki to automatically populate missing default settings. -
Added Time Travel option to view what a Kanji Grid looked like in the past.
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Groupings are now contained in individual json files instead of a single python file.
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Chinese character groupings can be selected.
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Added Basic Kanji Book (BKB) V1 & V2 grouping.
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Added JPDB Kanji Frequency List grouping.
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Added The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course (KLC) grouping.
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Added JIS Levels grouping.
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Added Thousand Character Classic grouping.
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Added Humanum Frequency List grouping.
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Added Words.hk Frequency List grouping.
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Renamed
Probably Chinese
Kanji Kentei Level sort category toNon-Kanji Kentei
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Removed
Missing Kanji
in groupings when there are no missing kanji.
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Added option to save Kanji Grid as JSON.
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Save Image
saves the entire page instead of only the visible portion. -
Save Image
can optionally save at up to 5x the displayed quality. Configurable inconfig.json
with thesaveimagequality
setting.WARNING: On extremely large kanji grids this can cause anki to crash. Consider saving as a PDF for higher quality instead if that is an issue.
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Added option to save Kanji Grid as PDF.
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Filename is autofilled with deck name and date when saving.
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Added option to save all kanji as TXT.
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Exporting runs in a background thread to prevent freezing the ui. (Except for
Save Image
which directly uses the ui to generate the image) -
Some exporting options can be used without rendering the grid.
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Added
Generate Timelapse Data
option to generate grid data between a range of dates for processing in an external program.
Bug Fixes
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Save HTML
andSave Image
now properly function. -
Fields with spaces in their name are now properly searchable.
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Fixed divide by zero error when no kanji are found and a kanji grouping is selected.
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Fixed JLPT kanji lists missing some characters.
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Added missing characters (mostly kyujitai) to Kanji Kentei Levels.
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Fixed a memory leak due to not cleaning up old webviews.