Hanja Idioms: Strokes & Quiz

Hanja Idioms helps you memorize classic four-character idioms (sajaseong-eo / chengyu / yojijukugo) by seeing, writing and testing. Every idiom has its own illustration, and every character can be traced stroke by stroke. Everything works offline.

■ 301 essential idioms
• Classics you meet in exams and daily life, such as 苦盡甘來, 大器晩成, 溫故知新, 臥薪嘗膽 and 守株待兎
• Meaning, literal reading, gloss for each character, origin story, example sentence and related idioms
• 18 themes (effort, learning, friendship, family, wisdom, conduct…) and three difficulty levels
• Search by characters, reading or meaning

■ Compare Korean, Chinese and Japanese forms
• Switch between Korean traditional, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) and Japanese shinjitai with one tap
• Readings in Hangul, pinyin and hiragana
• See whether each idiom is common, rare or unused in Chinese and Japanese
• Choose your default script in Settings

■ Stroke-order animation and tracing
• Tap a character to watch its strokes drawn in order
• Trace mode checks each stroke you draw on a 米-grid
• Dotted hints show where the next stroke starts and goes
• Stroke data for Korean, Chinese and Japanese forms

■ An illustration for every idiom
• 301 original flat illustrations in an East Asian ink-painting style, each showing the story or meaning
• Pictures make idioms far easier to remember

■ Quizzes
• Four modes: meaning → idiom, idiom → meaning, reading → characters, fill in the blank
• Scope: all, learned, favorites or previously missed
• 5 / 10 / 20 / 30 questions, review missed idioms right from the results

■ Track your progress
• Mark idioms as learned, see your progress bar, keep favorites
• Daily streak and quiz history

■ Home screen widget
• Idiom of the day (characters, reading, meaning) on your home screen
• "Another" button for a new idiom; tap to open the details

■ Reminders
• Every 1, 3, 6 or 12 hours, or once a day
• Quiet hours (for example 22:00–08:00)
• Tap a reminder to jump to that idiom

■ More
• App languages: Korean, English, Chinese, Japanese
• Meanings available in Korean, English, Chinese and Japanese
• Dark mode, no internet needed, no ads
• Text-to-speech uses the voices installed on your device

■ Data sources
Stroke data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License) and KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0). All illustrations are original.

Great for students preparing for Hanja or Kanji exams, learners of Korean, Chinese or Japanese, and anyone who loves the stories behind the idioms.