jstrebeyko / hanzi-cli

A simple CLI to archieve chinese characters along their pronounciation and translation in EN & PL.

hanzi 汉字

backend for language data collection and hosting

reasoning

1. I am trying to learn chinese regularly.
2. I found the concept of spaced repetition very appealing.
3. The flash cards set I bought:

• has around 600 items and is too clunky to bring around;
• it has only three dividers.

So, instead of getting four pieces of cardboard, I decided to create a CLI to help me digitilize what I learn daily, while learning Node.js data manipulation along the way.

goal

For now it is only helping me to digitalize content, but as the dataset grows, I plan to equip it with sorting and editing utilies, for it to ultimately become some sort of an API. I want to host it as a backend for chinese phrases/sentences/proverbs outlet or/and generator and feed it to some kind of Mao.

example hanzi model:

{
 hanzi: {
  char: '汉字',
  pron: ''
  trans: {
    eng: 'character',
    pl: 'znak' 
   }
 },
 sentence: {
  char: '',
  pron: '',
  trans: {
      eng: '',
      pl: '',
    }
},
    id:1
    cat: []
}

The strucure will surely evolve into something more flexible (see here)