Chinese-Vocab-List

Tap on a character to reveal the strokes, radicals and components it has in common with the character you're trying to guess. This was designed mainly for learners but I'm curious to hear from fluent hanzi readers whether the game is too easy. The vocabulary is from the Chinese Vocab List project [1]. Character graphics and data are sourced from Make me a Hanzi [2]. There are 95 pre generated games at the moment which are randomly chosen, more will be added soon. Suggestions welcome! [1] https://github.com/kerrickstaley/Chinese-Vocab-List [2] https://github.com/skishore/makemeahanzi

The segmentation is based on a library called jieba. It seems to work pretty well from my experience. https://github.com/fxsjy/jieba I do notice that some generated words are bogus (compounds of other words or redundant in some way). I have a file that lists redundant words, and when I notice these words I add them to the file so the tool won't generate them again. It also lists the words that they are duplicates of, so that those words can be upranked. This is the file if you're curious: https://github.com/kerrickstaley/Chinese-Vocab-List/blob/mas...

Some single-character words are included in the vocabulary list if they're often used as stand-alone words. Others that are rarely used alone or whose meaning can be inferred from "compound" words (e.g. 边, which occurs in 旁边， 右边， 左边，etc) are omitted. It's all based on my best judgement (which is probably misguided sometimes). A lot of manual tweaking went into generating the vocab list. All this deduplication is encoded in this file if you're curious: https://github.com/kerrickstaley/Chinese-Vocab-List/blob/mas... Also, in order to generate a flashcard for such a word, it would have to appear in a standalone context, e.g. 我没吃过牛肉 would not generate flashcards for 牛 or 肉, but 牛不吃肉would.