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:
Fix obvious English grammar/spelling errors
Use consistent formatting for radicals
Avoid redundancies (radicals containing constituent radicals, or indicate where these are included).
Allow searching by sound or even keyboard/ cellphone stroke input
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).
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
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.
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…
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.