Life & fun · December 16, 2025
Jordle – Japanese Furigana Practice
I was talking with a friend (@finnvoid) about how we could make it easier to practice their hiragana and katakana reading while they are living in Japan. After some quick basic idea-crafting with Gemini, they took it and ran with to, building "Jordle" a Wordle-esque tool to help them (and you) learn your furigana. Playing is easy, your goal is to transliterate the shown characters into the romaji (romanization). Pick between the two character sets (hiragana and katakana) or both to practice. Data is local to the device, so it's pretty snappy and technically works offline. We'll probably be…
Jordle – Japanese Furigana Practice launched on December 16, 2025 with 11 votes, #788 of 11,628 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Jordle is a Wordle-style game designed to help users practice reading hiragana and katakana by transliterating Japanese characters into romaji. Players can choose to practice either character set or both, and the game stores data locally on the device for fast performance and offline functionality. It was created to make furigana practice more accessible and engaging for Japanese learners.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
Practice Japanese Katakana and Hiragana with a Wordle-style game
Type the romaji (romanization) for the Japanese word shown above. Each letter gets its own tile. Press Enter to submit your guess. Modes: Katakana (loan words), Hiragana (native words), Kanji (read kanji only), or Random (allfrom jordle.io
In the maker’s words, at launch
I was talking with a friend (@finnvoid) about how we could make it easier to practice their hiragana and katakana reading while they are living in Japan. After some quick basic idea-crafting with Gemini, they took it and ran with to, building "Jordle" a Wordle-esque tool to help them (and you) learn your furigana.…
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