Jordle
Japanese Furigana Practice
Details
- External ID
- 46289237
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Jordle
- Website domain
- jordle.io
- Launched
- Dec. 16, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 11
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5286259541984732
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
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 hanging out in the comments for a bit if people have questions or comments!
Enrichment
- Theme
- typography and unicode text tools
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- japanese language practice tool
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Jordle is a client-side Wordle clone for Japanese kana and kanji practice with simple state management and predefined word lists.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: ChatGPT
Concerns raised: Mobile Safari zoom issue with keyboard input, Furigana terminology misused in app
Feature requests: Better interface for focused learning
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 59 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #32 of 60 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 39 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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