# Adding sample cloze strings to Back, without generating cards **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [July 7, 2025, 12:19pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/adding-sample-cloze-strings-to-back-without-generating-cards/63629 "2025-07-07T12:19:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![saraf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/saraf/32/29737_2.png) [@saraf](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/saraf)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 12:19pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/adding-sample-cloze-strings-to-back-without-generating-cards/63629/1 "2025-07-07T12:19:08Z")
I want to create a Note as follows, which will generate only ONE card - for the c1 cloze deletion in the Front. **Front:** If a cloze deletion can be guessed from {{c1::surrounding}} text without true knowledge, you must add {{c1::real world context}} or {{c1::restructure}} the card. **Back:** Example: {{c1::Mitochondria}} produce energy. (before) In cardiac cells, {{c1::mitochondria}} work 24/7 to {{c2::convert}} fatty acids into ATP through {{c3::oxidative phosphorylation}} (after) However, this STILL generates **FOUR** cards. To prevent Anki from processing cloze syntax on the back of your card as actual cloze deletions, I figured that I need to **escape the curly braces** in the back content. So I escape the braces on the back - by converting them into html entity codes as follows: ```auto Example:
{{c1::Mitochondria}} produce energy. (before)

In cardiac cells, {{c1::mitochondria}} work 24/7 to {{c2::convert}} fatty acids into ATP through {{c3::oxidative phosphorylation}} (after)
``` However - Anki still generates four cards - three of which show up as cards that do not have anything displayed on the front during review. What is the official way to ask Anki to ignore Cloze Deletions in the Back - when using Cloze type Notes? ---
**Author:** ![Anon\_0000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Anon\_0000](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Anon_0000)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 12:33pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/adding-sample-cloze-strings-to-back-without-generating-cards/63629/2 "2025-07-07T12:33:44Z")
It shouldn’t. Do you have `{{cloze:Back}}` in your template instead of the default `{{Back}}`? Without the `cloze:` part, Anki won’t convert them to close. Though Anki wouldn’t allow you to add that card now. I’m not sure how to make it work without adding a space: ```auto
{{ c1::Mitochondria}} produce energy. (before)
``` Or adding fake double colons: ```auto {{c1։։Mitochondria}} produce energy. (before) ``` With the fake colons, you’d get a single card looking like this: ![anki](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/3X/5/6/5697a0a13d29bc8210a20a5879a9eaee8cbe7c63.png) ---
**Author:** ![saraf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/saraf/32/29737_2.png) [@saraf](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/saraf)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 12:45pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/adding-sample-cloze-strings-to-back-without-generating-cards/63629/3 "2025-07-07T12:45:32Z")
My Back Template is ```auto {{cloze:Text}}
{{Back Extra}} ``` I am adding the example to the Back Extra field in the Note. ---
**Author:** ![Anon\_0000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Anon\_0000](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Anon_0000)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/adding-sample-cloze-strings-to-back-without-generating-cards/63629/4 "2025-07-07T12:49:59Z")
But in this case you’d get a warning and cannot add the card: ![anki](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/3X/3/1/315212d279ca0219a7f5d04b34d387099bba33b4.png) Can you try the fake double colon one I mentioned? ---
**Author:** ![saraf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/saraf/32/29737_2.png) [@saraf](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/saraf)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 12:56pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/adding-sample-cloze-strings-to-back-without-generating-cards/63629/5 "2025-07-07T12:56:53Z")
How to type in a fake double colon? (escaping?) In your post they look like a normal double colon. For now, per your suggestion - I tried fixing the Note with an added space after the first double brace `{{ c1:like this}}` - in all the sample clozes on the Back - and only one Card was generated. But this may not be the best solution. ---
**Author:** ![Anon\_0000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Anon\_0000](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Anon_0000)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/adding-sample-cloze-strings-to-back-without-generating-cards/63629/6 "2025-07-07T12:59:07Z")
> [@saraf](#): > > In your post they look like a normal double colon. Indeed, they look very similar. I do not know how to type them on a keyboard. You can copy and paste them though from here: > [@Anon\_0000](#): > > `{{c1։։Mitochondria}} produce energy. (before)` ---
**Author:** ![saraf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/saraf/32/29737_2.png) [@saraf](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/saraf)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 1:07pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/adding-sample-cloze-strings-to-back-without-generating-cards/63629/7 "2025-07-07T13:07:51Z")
Interesting! I pasted your fake double colons into a file and did a hex dump. ```auto a@thinkpad MINGW64 ~ $ od -h fake.txt 0000000 89d6 89d6 000a 0000005 a@thinkpad MINGW64 ~ $ od -h real.txt 0000000 3a3a 000a 0000003 ``` What is this 89d6 character!? - As pointed out by remline below - this is UTF8 and the unicode codepoint cannot be read straight from the output of `od`. ---
**Author:** ![Anon\_0000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Anon\_0000](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Anon_0000)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 1:12pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/adding-sample-cloze-strings-to-back-without-generating-cards/63629/8 "2025-07-07T13:12:33Z")
I searched online for colon lookalikes. I think it was stackoverflow or similar; searching for it now, I somehow cannot find the exact page I copied it from, though. ---
**Author:** ![saraf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/saraf/32/29737_2.png) [@saraf](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/saraf)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 1:13pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/adding-sample-cloze-strings-to-back-without-generating-cards/63629/9 "2025-07-07T13:13:14Z")
I searched for your fake colon character by pasting it in - and that led me to a page that told me that it was ```auto Unicode Character “﹕” (U+FE55) ﹕ Name: Small Colon ``` ---
**Author:** ![saraf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/saraf/32/29737_2.png) [@saraf](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/saraf)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 1:21pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/adding-sample-cloze-strings-to-back-without-generating-cards/63629/10 "2025-07-07T13:21:27Z")
There seem to be a bunch of similar characters: ```auto Based on ":" (U+003A) [U+FE13︓Presentation Form For Vertical Colon] [U+FE55﹕Small Colon] [U+FF1A：Fullwidth Colon] ``` ---
**Author:** ![remline](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/remline/32/26354_2.png) [@remline](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/remline)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/adding-sample-cloze-strings-to-back-without-generating-cards/63629/11 "2025-07-07T13:40:54Z")
> [@saraf](#): > > What is this 89d6 character?! Since fake.txt is encoded as UTF-8, we can’t read the code point directly from the hex dump. This is because code points greater than 0x7F require multiple bytes to encode. The colon character in Anon’s example is 0x589, “Armenian Full Stop”. ---
**Author:** ![saraf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/saraf/32/29737_2.png) [@saraf](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/saraf)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/adding-sample-cloze-strings-to-back-without-generating-cards/63629/12 "2025-07-07T15:25:30Z")
Oh yes - UTF8 😆 ```auto echo "։" | hexdump -C ``` You see the UTF-8 encoded bytes for the Armenian full stop character ‘։’. **Output:** ```auto d6 89 ``` This means the character ‘։’ is stored as two bytes: `d6` and `89` in hexadecimal. #### 2. Step-by-Step: Decoding the Bytes Let’s break down how these bytes represent ‘։’ in Unicode. ##### a. Convert Hex to Binary - `d6` in hex = `11010110` in binary - `89` in hex = `10001001` in binary So the bytes are: ```auto 11010110 10001001 ``` ##### b. Recognize the UTF-8 Pattern For characters outside basic ASCII, UTF-8 uses two or more bytes. A 2-byte UTF-8 character follows this pattern: ```auto 110xxxxx 10xxxxxx ``` - The `x` bits hold the actual character data. ##### c. Extract the Data Bits Take only the `x` bits: - From `11010110`: the last 5 bits → `10110` - From `10001001`: the last 6 bits → `001001` Join them: ```auto 10110 001001 ``` ##### d. Combine and Convert to Decimal Put the bits together: `10110001001` - In decimal: `1×2^10 + 0×2^9 + 1×2^8 + 1×2^7 + 0×2^6 + 0×2^5 + 0×2^4 + 1×2^3 + 0×2^2 + 0×2^1 + 1×2^0` = 1024 + 256 + 128 + 8 + 1 = **1417** ##### e. Find the Unicode Code Point - 1417 in hexadecimal = **0x589** - Unicode notation: **U+0589** This matches the Unicode for ‘։’ (Armenian full stop). ### Summary Table | Character | Hex Bytes | Binary | Unicode Code Point | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ‘։’ | d6 89 | 11010110 10001001 | U+0589 | ---
**Author:** ![saraf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/saraf/32/29737_2.png) [@saraf](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/saraf)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/adding-sample-cloze-strings-to-back-without-generating-cards/63629/13 "2025-07-07T15:28:46Z")
```auto sudo apt install icu-devtools alias unidump='uconv -x "::Any-Hex;"' echo "։" | unidump \u0589\u000A ``` ---
**Author:** ![saraf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/saraf/32/29737_2.png) [@saraf](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/saraf)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/adding-sample-cloze-strings-to-back-without-generating-cards/63629/14 "2025-07-07T15:35:00Z")
So - Is inserting fake colons the best way of adding cloze strings on the reverse side of a Cloze Note, or is there any other way? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ZornHadNoChoice](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/zornhadnochoice/32/28874_2.png) [@ZornHadNoChoice](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/ZornHadNoChoice)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/adding-sample-cloze-strings-to-back-without-generating-cards/63629/15 "2025-07-07T17:32:19Z")
Use a special syntax in your fields then use JavaScript to display it correctly. Back: ```auto [[c1::Mitochondria]] produce energy. ``` Back template: ```auto
{{Back}}
``` Edit: you can use this addon to automate typing the special syntax. [https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1899278645](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1899278645) ---
**Author:** ![Danika\_Dakika](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/danika_dakika/32/17815_2.png) [@Danika\_Dakika](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Danika_Dakika)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/adding-sample-cloze-strings-to-back-without-generating-cards/63629/16 "2025-07-07T23:07:44Z")
> [@saraf](#): > > Is inserting fake colons the best way of adding cloze strings on the reverse side of a Cloze Note, or is there any other way? If I understand the problem correctly, the purpose of those strings is purely to act as examples of what you _could_ put on a cloze note – is that right? You don’t need anything sophisticated to disrupt the flow of the `{{c` . Try hiding some HTML in there, like code-blocking or a zero-width space entity – so it won’t be visible in your example. ```plaintext {{c7::balloon}} {{c8::windowsill}} {{​c9::elephant}} ``` These worked for me [when entered in the HTML view] in a cloze note type for both a cloze-filtered field and a non-cloze-filtered field – and on a non-cloze note type. ---
**Author:** ![saraf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/saraf/32/29737_2.png) [@saraf](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/saraf)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 9:55am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/adding-sample-cloze-strings-to-back-without-generating-cards/63629/17 "2025-07-08T09:55:42Z")
Oh - thank you! this is simple. I _had_ tried ` and 
`, but the tags were outside the curly brackets.  
That _does not work_.

```auto

This - put in the Cloze Note's 'Back Extra' field DOES NOT work - it produces three extra incorrect cloze cards.
{{c7::balloon}} {{c8::party}} {{c9::streamers}}  


```

but - as per @Danika_Dakika s suggestion - this works

```auto
This - put in the Cloze Note's 'Back Extra' field works! - it does not produce three extra incorrect cloze cards.
{{c7::balloon}} {{c8::party}} {{c9::streamers}}  

```

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