kanjistat offers tools for processing and analyzing Japanese kanji characters. You can look up readings and meanings along with further dictionary information (to a large part provided by KANJIDIC2) including morphological details. You can plot kanji in your favorite font and process the resulting bitmap. You can represent kanji as nested lists of stroke paths (based on original data by kanjiVG), plot components in different color or display the tree structure, and analyze these decompositions and their individual strokes. Various old and new distance functions between kanji are implemented.
Comments, suggestions and contributions are welcome!
Install directly from GitHub by saying in R
remotes::install_github("dschuhmacher/kanjistat")
If you want to use the function kanjidist
, you will have
to install the GNU Linear
Programming Kit (and the R package
ROI.plugin.glpk
).
Kanji are represented in three different ways in this package:
as characters (or their Unicode codepoints) in the console
as kanjimat
objects, i.e., bitmaps
using a certain font-family and possibly other typographical
parameters.
as kanjivec
objects, i.e., nested
lists of strokes given as paths.
See vignette("kanjistat")
for the basics and
?kanjivec
and ?kanjidist
for more information
on the third point.
A file with kanjivec
objects for all Jōyō kanji can be
obtained from the kanjistat.data
repository.
kanjistat
is free software: you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.
This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
A copy of the GNU General Public License is in the file LICENSE.md and at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
The code in the file R/svgparser_lite
is slightly
altered from R package
svgparser
v0.1.2 — Copyright © 2021
mikefc@coolbutuseless.com
made available under an MIT License at
https://github.com/coolbutuseless/svgparser
The data sets kbase
, kmorph
and
kreadmean
are mostly derived from
KANJIDIC2 — Copyright © James William Breen and The Electronic
Dictionary Research and Development Group (EDRDG)
made available under a CC BY-SA 4.0
License at
https://www.edrdg.org/wiki/index.php/KANJIDIC_Project
The variable components
of data set kmorph
is derived from
RADKFILE/KRADFILE — Copyright © James William Breen and The Electronic
Dictionary Research and Development Group (EDRDG)
made available under a CC BY-SA 4.0
License at
https://www.edrdg.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
The variables jlpt
, frank
and
idc
of data sets kbase
and kmorph
are taken from
Kanjium — Copyright © Uros O. on any additions or modifications from
previous sources
made available under a CC BY-SA 4.0
License at
https://github.com/mifunetoshiro/kanjium
The data set fivebetas
is derived from five of the svg
files in
KanjiVG — Copyright (C) 2009-2023 Ulrich Apel
made available under a CC BY-SA 3.0
License at
https://kanjivg.tagaini.net/
085e4.svg
and 090f5.svg
(included for unit
tests) are exact copies of files from the same source