{"id":1098,"date":"2008-04-08T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T08:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2008\/find-chinese-characters-online-by-drawing-them-with-your-mouse\/"},"modified":"2008-04-08T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T08:42:10","slug":"find-chinese-characters-online-by-drawing-them-with-your-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2008\/find-chinese-characters-online-by-drawing-them-with-your-mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Chinese characters online by drawing them with your mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nciku.com\/\">Nciku<\/a>, a Web site that bills itself as &#8220;more than a dictionary,&#8221; has a nifty feature that allows users to find Chinese characters by drawing them with a mouse. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nciku.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2008\/04\/draw_chinese_character1.gif\" alt=\"interface for the character-drawing tool\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you draw, possible character matches will appear in the box to the right of your drawing, with the results refined as your drawing progresses. You don&#8217;t need to know the canonical stroke order to get this to work, nor do your calligraphy skills need to be perfect, as this example shows.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2008\/04\/draw_chinese_character2.gif\" alt=\", showing the results with a sloppily drawn ? (the 'pin' of 'Pinyin')\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once you see the correct character offered as a choice, click on it and it will be entered into the search box for the site&#8217;s online dictionary. This dictionary feature can handle multiple-character input and will even prompt you with likely choices to fill out your search. <\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/keywords.oxus.net\/archives\/2007\/08\/11\/tweets-2007-08-11\/\">Keywords<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nciku, a Web site that bills itself as &#8220;more than a dictionary,&#8221; has a nifty feature that allows users to find Chinese characters by drawing them with a mouse. As you draw, possible character matches will appear in the box &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2008\/find-chinese-characters-online-by-drawing-them-with-your-mouse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,113,32,38],"tags":[836,378,534],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-chinese-characters","category-computers","category-mandarin","category-software","tag-chinese-characters","tag-chinese-dictionary","tag-draw-chinese-character"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}