Comments on: How to look up Chinese characters you don’t know

By: 에버소울 티어표

에버소울 티어표 — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:01:16 +0000

Thank you. I learned how to find Chinese characters.

By: Olle Linge

Olle Linge — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 17:30:18 +0000

In reply to Jaap Grolleman. That's already covered under "contextual look-up"! :) But yes, I agree that this is quite useful.

By: Jaap Grolleman

Jaap Grolleman — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 01:36:47 +0000

I would add another method of “Contextual look-up”. Let’s say I see 威慑 but I don’t know the second character. I have a Pinyin keyboard on my phone and if I type in wei, then I select 威 — the keyboard will auto-suggest characters that follow this character. Doesn’t always work, but the fastest method by far when it does.

By: Mark Carter (Hanping Chinese developer)

Mark Carter (Hanping Chinese developer) — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 04:05:47 +0000

Since more and more people are consuming content on their screens (rather than in the real world), it’s probably also worth mentioning the relatively new breed of smartphone apps that allow looking up characters in any app where copy-paste is not available. The first of which (for any language, in fact) was our very own Hanping Chinese Popup which gives the user a floating cursor on top of whichever app is currently shown – move the cursor to the Chinese text and a popup will be revealed showing the pronunciation, dictionary meaning etc, as well as buttons to play audio, star/tag, copy etc.

By: frank

frank — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 18:15:57 +0000

I have just started reading the Dao je ding, Tao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchel and Paul Carus’s literal translation. It has helped me a great deal along with my regular lessons. Characters , pronunciation and meaning are intertwined. it takes time to figure out what crossed the speaker’s mind as they talk.Trainchinese dictionary helps a lot! Yet, I wish I had feedback from someone else. Thanks for inspiring and keep on running

By: Olle Linge

Olle Linge — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 07:11:49 +0000

In reply to Richard Solberg. It really is very different these days, like qualitatively different. When I started learning, I think there were lots of tools available, they were just not easy enough to use and they were hard to find, so I still mostly relied on old-fashioned dictionary look-up, even if the dictionaries were digital (i.e. I had no handwriting or OCR or anything fancy like that). This was further compounded by the horrible design of the textbook we used, which presented example sentences for grammar that had tons of new vocabulary which were not introduced or explain anywhere in the book, not even Pinyin was given. It took me and a friend about an hour per chapter to just figure out what these example sentences meant!

By: Richard Solberg

Richard Solberg — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 03:04:28 +0000

Thanks for this article. I started learning Chinese in 1966, and Mathews was where I spent a lot of time. I am no longer in the field, but I have wondered how looking up characters has changed with computers. I will find the Mosher article and read it with great interest.