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Hints

You can include a customized hint to show at the front of any card, by using the Hint field. This will show as a collapsible field at the front of card.

If you do not want the hint to be hidden by default, you can use the HintNotHidden field instead.

hint field demo

HintNotHidden field demo

Testing Pitch Accent

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No particular card type specifies how you should test pitch accent. This is because customizing how you should test pitch accent is a common feature of all card types.

By default, no special indicator is shown on whether pitch accent is tested or not, so you are free to choose either to test the pitch accent on all cards, or no cards.

To test for pitch accent, fill the PAShowInfo field. You should see a circle to the left of the word or sentence.

Pitch Accent Indicator

This circle you see is called the "Pitch Accent Indicator", or "PA Indicator" for short. How this card indicates what pitch accent is tested is by the PA indicator's color.

pitch accent indicators

Here are what the colors represent:

  • Green: The entire sentence is tested.
  • Blue: Only the word is tested.
  • Red: Pitch accent should not be tested in any way.

If you ever forget what the colors mean, you can hover your mouse over the circle to get a description of what is being tested.

Alternatively, you can look at the top right of the screen and look at the value after the /.

pitch accent indicator hover demo

Note

If the tested content is a sentence (card), but you want to only test for word pitch accent, you would not be able to see the word normally. To see the word that is tested, there is a button to toggle whether the word is highlighted or not. The content that is highlighted is exactly what is bolded in the Sentence (or AltDisplay / AltDisplayPASentenceCard) field, which is the added word by default.

show word button demo

Note

If your card is a vocab card, then full sentence is shown as a collapsed field by default. This is only here to check your hearing with your guessed pitch accent, when used in conjunction with the sentence play button.

Selecting the Pitch Accent

The following shows how to fill in the proper fields to test pitch accent:

Filled fields PA Indicator Separated Cards
(None, default) (Doesn't exist)
PAShowInfo Green (sentence) or blue (word),
depending on the tested content
PAShowInfo &
PADoNotTest		 Red (not tested)
PAShowInfo &
PATestOnlyWord		 Blue (word)
PAShowInfo &
PASeparateWordCard		 Red (not tested) Word
PAShowInfo &
PASeparateSentenceCard		 Blue (word) Sentence
PAShowInfo &
PASeparateWordCard &
PASeparateSentenceCard		 Red (not tested) Word & Sentence

To clarify some of the above:

  • By default, if only PAShowInfo is filled, then the entire display is tested
    • For vocab cards, targeted sentence cards, and reveal vocab cards, only the word PA is tested (PA indicator: blue).
    • For sentence cards and reveal sentence cards, the entire sentence PA is tested (PA indicator: green).
  • To test just the word pitch accent, fill the PATestOnlyWord field.
  • To create completely separate cards to just test pitch accent on, use the fields PASeparateSentenceCard and/or PASeparateWordCard.
  • If a PA word card is created, then the default card does not test pitch accent. Similarly, if a PA sentence card is created, then the default card only tests the word pitch accent.
Last update: April 24, 2023