Component-based kanji input system

This video demonstrates a new and hopefully useful way to input kanji by indicating components that are part of it. Any component, not only radicals, can be specified. As components are entered, a list of kanji that contains them is displayed, and a list of complementary components, that will lead to a kanji if added to the current selection, is updated.

Using this method, most kanjis are 3 or 4 clicks away without knowing anything about them (no pronunciation, radical or stroke number knowledge needed) for anyone with only very basic understanding of kanjis.

This feature is still a work-in-progress, but will be released with Tagaini Jisho 0.2.5. See http://www.tagaini.net for more details.

Background music: Traffic Cars by Professor Kliq.
http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/443368

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• japanese
• kanji
• dictionary
• tagaini
• jisho

[meideiprod]

I'm wondering if the component and the kanji radical can be mergered in some way. Sometimes I confuse which is a radical and which is under the component section.

[gnurou]

@meideiprod I think that if you use the component selector, you can input both components and radicals, as components are inclusive of radicals (at least that's how it's supposed to be designed)

[denelson83]

First you looked up "dream", then "work", and finally "swing".