閃卡 — User Guide

A flashcard app for studying Chinese vocabulary, with stroke practice, character lookup, and spaced repetition.

Choosing what to study

The lesson selector (top-left dropdown) lets you pick your deck:

The number in parentheses shows how many cards are in each deck.

The mode selector controls what appears on the front of each card:

The answer side shows Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese (if different), Pinyin, and the English meaning.

The bottom half of the screen is a drawing pad for stroke practice.

Four rating buttons appear after flipping a card. These drive the spaced repetition system — cards you find harder come back sooner:

Cards you've rated before appear in the Due for Review deck when their interval is up.

Tap the ★ button to star the current card. Starred cards are added to the Review (★) deck. Tap again to unstar.

Tap the ◐ button to enable shadow mode. The character is displayed as a tracing guide on the drawing pad.

Tap an individual character on the card to select it and display it on the drawing pad
When a character is selected, the ⌕ lookup button appears (see below)
Shadow mode temporarily disables flipping and rating cards

In shadow mode, after tapping a character, tap ⌕ to open a lookup menu:

The row of dots at the bottom shows your progress through the current deck:

Tap ⛶ in the toolbar to toggle fullscreen mode.

On mobile, use your browser's "Add to Home Screen" option to install 閃卡 as a PWA for full-screen, offline use.

Author: Dan Moore (莫杰)

License: Open-source (link to source code)