New app for finding Chinese characters

1-2 per minute, looking at the Chinese characters on walls, for example. The new app online works like LEGO or a puzzle: 小+又+宀+ 扌= 擦.


It’s all click-what-you-see, nothing more is required to get the writings digitalized, one character by another, and get translated)

Very hard to use. I cannot even find the radicals for words I write daily. Needs a lot of work. Assuming this is your creation:

  1. Fix obvious English grammar/spelling errors
  2. Use consistent formatting for radicals
  3. Avoid redundancies (radicals containing constituent radicals, or indicate where these are included).
  4. Allow searching by sound or even keyboard/ cellphone stroke input
  5. Include a simple stroke order tutorial for search results

Overall, there are much better applications/sites available for searching words by their appearance. If the purpose is to teach keyboard input methods, stick to that (don’t include unavailable inputs).

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AhDohGah, thank you very much for your reply! Sure I’ll try to read thru my English text carefully once again. As for the radicals containing constituent radicals, this is not a bug, this is a main feature! Site was designed for Western people, who doesn’t know ⽱ as a radical, but sure can find and click ‘冂’ and then ‘厶’. ‘The components’ repeat someway, I agree, but they give, as I think, an opportunity to find the whole Chinese character funally from the HSK.
‘Searching by sound or even keyboard/ cellphone stroke input’, ‘simple stroke order tutorial’ – it would be cool, but the site is for the absolute beginners, who don’t know absolutely anything about the brush. They never went to a Chinese school :frowning:
Thank you very much again for you important remarks, I won’t forget them!

I like the idea of searching the characteres like a lego, but I’m not sure about its feasibility.
I just tried to write “wind” 風, and couldn’t find anyway to do so.

Also, there are already tools (such as google translator) that allows you to “draw” and help you to find the word you are looking for. The results are faster and easier.

IMEs like Boshiamy and Changjie are designed to do exactly that.

哈 for example is OAO in Boshiamy.

My comment was about @RedColor’s website specifically, but yeah, I hear about such methods.
Good point bringing that up, as these are comparative methods, indeed. However, I think it may be easier to use one of these, as they limit the input to 26 letters, instead of 1072 options…

There is no 風 in the base, only 风. It contains only simpified HSK characters for a now. The rulse says a person could choose.

In practice, I use about 100-150 of first characters, and very rarely ‘the heavy ones’.

One way to do it is just to use strokes

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for example, 福 would be 45241009

Sure, but one shold be prepared for this. For me, it occured to be easy to make a site than to learn the rules. Well, I use it on a daly basis)

The problem is that one have to know the order of the strokes so one can use it.
With @RedColor that doesn’t seem necessary. But then again, neither with google translator drawing input.

Does it work with the characters like 鹰? I cannot draw this to get the good result for the computer to recognize.

google translator drawing input… O.M.G. no good

I just tried, and it did work:
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And you have to agree that my drawing was not pretty…
I blame the computer mouse!

Although I think it would be even worst if I try to do it by hand :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Why not?
It works well to find a character and even gives you the translation at the same time.

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I’ve just got the eagle too. Big screen, nice mouse, from the third try I got it. Google rules! For those who can easily draw.

I just tried the same word (鹰) on your website, but it didn’t show up among the results:

Or am I using it wrongly? :ponder:

Google translator drawing input recognizes what I cannot.

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Have you tried traditional?