Two Part (两分) Functionality

ACardiganAndAFrown

ACardiganAndAFrown

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Has two part search functionality ever been considered for Pleco?

I've only actually ever seen it used on http://zisea.com.

For instance I can search "shou ding" (or "扌丁" if one was not so lazy) and get 打, among many others, as a result.

A lot of, really, super, duper, rare, characters are unrecognized by Plecos handwriting interface - even if you know the pinyin (which is not very likely) the character won't show up either if it's just in UNI.

I end up relying a lot two part (两分) functionality on zisea and 笔顺 functionality on zdic.
 
Captain Planet

Captain Planet

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Sogou Pinyin IME also has this feature. You can type uhspn to get 木 (stroke-by-stroke), umumu to get 林 (compound-by-compound) or even mix the two, like umudddd for 杰. Details here.

If you know the pronunciation but the character is far away in the suggestions list you can also filter by strokes, for example to get 衢 you can type qu<Tab>pp.
 
ACardiganAndAFrown

ACardiganAndAFrown

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Captain Planet said:
Sogou Pinyin IME also has this feature. You can type uhspn to get 木 (stroke-by-stroke), umumu to get 林 (compound-by-compound) or even mix the two, like umudddd for 杰. Details here.

If you know the pronunciation but the character is far away in the suggestions list you can also filter by strokes, for example to get 衢 you can type qu<Tab>pp.
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Works on iOS?
 
mikelove

mikelove

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Staff member
We've already got a rough version of this working through the CHARS tab, but only with one component at a time - filtering with additional components is definitely on our to-do list, the main thing we're missing is a nifty UI for choosing them.
 
P

Peter

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Loosely related request: a combined English and headword search.
e.g. find me all definitions with headword containing "着" _and_ definition text containing "then"

the only way to do this at present is search for "#then", and eyeball the results.
 
JD

JD

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mikelove said:
Actually we already support that - type "*着#then" in the search field :)
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Is there any way you could create a "quick reminder card" for all the different ways that searches can be done in Pleco?

I read through a lot of the help documentation a few weeks ago, but by now I can't remember all the different ways that one can do the different types of searches.

The most ideal would be if there was someway to see the different search types and search characters from the search interface bar, but I'm not sure what that would look like.
 
mikelove

mikelove

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Staff member
Good idea. That's actually still evolving a bit, particularly with our plans to allow filtering by parts of speech and other tags (rather than just by arbitrary words in entries), but we need some easy central reference for this stuff, yeah.
 
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