# Chunja — Cheonjamun — Classical hanja primer, calmly

> Classical hanja primer, calmly (iPhone/iPad app by Jung Soon Shin.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chunja-cheonjamun/id392902342 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Jung Soon Shin](https://appshunter.io/developer/379186743)
- Category: Education, Reference
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 5 MB
- Languages: English, Japanese, Korean
- Released: 2026-05-15
- Data updated: 2026-08-11
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chunja-cheonjamun/id392902342/reviews.md

## What is Chunja?

The Thousand Character Classic — 千字文 — was composed in 6th-century China by the Liang-dynasty scholar Zhou Xingsi. It uses exactly one thousand distinct Chinese characters, arranged into 250 four-character rhyming stanzas. For more than 1,500 years it has been the first book Korean and Japanese students opened to learn classical characters.

Chunja is a quiet, modern way to read it.

— Calm by design
No streak counters. No flame icons. No notifications. No advertising. This is not a game. Two to three minutes a day is enough, the way it has always been.

— Original order, original units
We open with "天地玄黃 宇宙洪荒" and we close with "焉哉乎也." The original 250-stanza sequence is preserved. Each four-character stanza is the unit of study.

— Three languages, one screen
Korean readings (eum·hun), Japanese readings (on'yomi·kun'yomi), and English meanings, side by side. Display follows your iOS system language, or pin a single language in Settings.

— Trace
Practice the brushstrokes by finger or Apple Pencil on a hanji grid. No recognition, no scoring — just the old way of writing along.

— Stays on your device
No account. No cloud. No login. Progress is stored locally; the full text is bundled, so the app works offline.

— Source
Korean readings and meanings are sourced from Korean Wikisource (번역:천자문, public domain).

Read slowly. Remember long.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.2.7 — 2026-08-10

Small improvements and bug fixes to keep things running smoothly.

### 1.2.6 — 2026-07-20

• New: discover Plotta, a real-world GPS walking game where you claim territory, right from Settings.

### 1.2.5 — 2026-07-16

Small improvements and bug fixes to keep things running smoothly.

### 1.2.4 — 2026-07-08

A calmer new hanji paper theme and a tidied-up reading list. The practice screen now shows your progress and the next stanza at a glance. Stability improvements.

### 1.2.3 — 2026-06-18

We refreshed our App Store screenshots and polished the experience. Learn the Thousand Character Classic, three minutes a day.

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