stephenn said:Any chance to get "Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary", as on Zhongwen.com? or something similar?
I find it a helpful way to learn characters, but the web interface is clunky enough, but especially without a full computer.
mikelove said:stephenn said:Any chance to get "Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary", as on Zhongwen.com? or something similar?
I find it a helpful way to learn characters, but the web interface is clunky enough, but especially without a full computer.
That particular title seems unavailable - wrote him several times and he wasn't interested - but we are looking around for something similar. (indeed we already have a little bit of this functionality through our character info screen's Chars tab)
root said:Oh man, this is very disappointing -- I was hoping to see Rick Harbaugh's content as part of Pleco, it would easily be worth same price as the paper book or a bit more.
Would there be any chance of support for vector or bitmap-based images in future versions of Pleco? Zhongwen.com and Harbaugh's dictionary are so inaccurate in their etymologies that they're not really useful for much other than mnemonics, but I for one would love to be able to ditch my paper dictionaries of seal/oracle/bronzeware-script characters. Right now I use the (slightly irritatingly misnamed) Chinese Etymology app for iOS, but it requires an internet connection.
Oops - sorry to be checking back in so late. I'd been thinking about both Pleco and user-generated dictionaries, actually -- though are there any authoring tools for user-generated dictionaries? Basically I'd just love to be able to replace my 汉字源流字典 and various similar dictionaries with digital equivalents.
Yes, I've looked at it, and it does not replace Harbaugh's book -- I mostly use his book for the etymology tips, it's the mnemonic that is valuable.Have you taken a look at the Chars tab? Doesn't include all of the etymological data but it does give you the component breakdowns at least.