celesterspencer / anki-chinese-card-template

Anki/-droid template for learning chinese

Anki chinese card template

The idea of this template is to make it easier to associate hanzi with pinyin and the corresponding tone. Hanzi and pinyin are wrapped in a box with a color that corresponds to a tone.

The card template contains 4 fields

• Hanzi
• Pinyin
• Translation
• Hint

To create the layout the number of chunks for pinyin and hanzi have to fit. For hanzi every character is a chunk. Also an array of symbols .,;!?/ ended by a whitespace is a chunk. For pinyin, letters that may or may not be followed by a number are considered as a chunk.

Example

	我是从 ... 來的.
    wo3 shi4 cong2 ... lai2 de.

我	是	从	...	來	的	.
wo3	shi4	cong2	...	lai2	de	.

Colors

This template has a custom color coding. But can be changed to fit color codings of other programs.

tone	color
first	red
second	green
third	blue
forth	purple
fifth/no	gray

PEG.js

To properly associate hanzi with pinyin and tones PEG.js has been used to create parsers that cut the strings into chunks and split pinyin into text and tones.