Shiwaku

Read the Analects one passage a day, and check that you can recite it.

Shiwaku takes you through the Analects of Confucius in order, one passage each morning. Read the original text with a translation, then come back to the passages you have read on a spaced schedule and check whether you can still recite them.

Today's passage

One passage a day, from Book 1 onward, with the original Classical Chinese text and a translation.

Recitation check

Passages you have read return the next day, then after 3, 7, 21 and 60 days. Part of the text is hidden; recall it, reveal it, and mark whether you could say it.

Recitation map

Every passage of the 20 books appears as a square, colored as unread, read, reciting or memorized.

Free and Premium

Books 1 and 2 are free. Premium opens all 20 books and the spaced review schedule.

No account registration is required. The original text of the Analects is in the public domain. Passage divisions follow the received text of Zhu Xi's Collected Commentaries; the edition and the number of passages are listed in the app's settings under Sources. Translations were prepared for this app; the English translation consults James Legge (1861, public domain).

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