Tester for the number of characters you know

Some time ago I played around trying to measure the number of characters I know, mostly to track my own progress. If anyone else wants to try/play with the program I made, it’s at: tapani.homeftp.org/cgi-bin/hantrain.cgi

Please keep in mind that it is hard to measure this accurately from a limited number characters tested, so don’t take it too seriously :slight_smile:

Nice program!

One thing though: Can’t you display accents instead of tone numbers? mǔ is much nicer to look at than mu3.

Thank you, glad you liked it.

Agree that showing accented vowels would be nice (maybe in addition to a exponented tone number?). So far I am just using whatever pinyin was in the public domain dictionary I found.

Adding the tones programmatically might be tricky, since some syllables contain more than one vowel (like dian). Which vowel should get the accent? The first? The second? Depends on the syllable, and I need to add a table of them…?

There are actually pretty simple rules for whichever vowel will get the diacritic: pinyin.info/rules/where.html

Thank you! Wasn’t aware that the rules were that easy :slight_smile:
(even noticed that unicode contains accented variants of ü for all tones)

Well, you can express pretty everything you see in a printed book in Unicode. No need for Ascii-time writing :wink: