日本語 · Japanese flashcards
Japanese words that stay learned.
Cards Inc. is a flashcard app for Japanese vocabulary. It brings each word back just before you would forget it, gives every word a sentence you can read with furigana and tap into, and writes out every kanji stroke by stroke. It works offline, and it never asks you to sign in to study.
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JLPT N5 · NOUN
東京
とうきょう
Tokyo
東京の夏はとても暑いです。
Summers in Tokyo are very hot.
Spaced repetition
Three buttons. The schedule is handled.
Rate each card Again, Good or Easy. A word you know comes back later every time; a word you missed comes back in minutes. Start from the JLPT N5–N1 decks, or build decks of your own as you go.
new card — again 10m · good 1d · easy 3d; good every time → 1d → 3d → 8d → 20d → 50d …
Tap to look up
Tap any word inside a sentence.
Words the dictionary knows sit on a hairline; tap one and its entry opens over the sentence, and an inflected verb finds its dictionary form. Reading a word this way is never counted — the free plan’s 5 searches a day apply to the search box, not to studying.
Readings over the sentences — never over the answer.
Every example sentence carries its readings above the kanji, so you can read it before you know every word in it. The word you are being tested on never shows its reading: that would hand you the answer.
東京の夏はとても暑いです。
い-ADJ
暑いあつい
hot
tapped — not counted
Stroke order
Every kanji, written out stroke by stroke.
2,638 kanji from KanjiVG, written out in order — the newest stroke in coral, starting from the dot where the brush goes down — or stepped through one stroke at a time. All of it lives on the phone, so it works with no signal.
- 8 strokes
- on
- トウ
- kun
- ひがし
- radical
- 木 (tree)
Dictionary
A dictionary that works offline.
Over 22,000 common words from JMdict, on the phone. Search in English, kana, kanji or romaji, open the entry, and add the word to a deck in one tap.
Also
- No account needed. Sign in only if you want a backup and a second device kept in step.
- A note of your own on any card.
- A daily reminder at 21:00, if you turn it on.
- Light and dark, following your phone.
- Everything you have studied, exported as one file whenever you ask.
Plans
Free to study. Premium lifts the limits.
Free
Everything you need to study
- 5 dictionary searches a day
- 3 decks of your own, 20 cards in each
- The JLPT N5–N1 decks
- Looking up words inside sentences — never counted
- Furigana, stroke order, reminders and sync
Premium
Everything unlimited
- Unlimited dictionary searches
- Unlimited decks of your own
- Unlimited cards in each deck
- Everything in Free
An auto-renewing subscription through the App Store, at the price the store shows you, in your own currency. Cancel any time in Settings → Apple Account → Subscriptions. Buying needs an account, so premium follows you to a new phone.