說文字典

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Learning Chinese characters has never been easy, but characters are the foundation of all knowledge and subjects. Regardless of which country's language you are learning, if you don't pay attention to methods and just learn word by word, it will be inefficient and difficult to improve. If the learning method is inefficient and the process of looking up words is too cumbersome, it will lead to a habit of not seeking thorough understanding, and the articles written will be full of errors, which is the main reason for the decline in the language proficiency of modern people.

Recalling Chinese language courses in student days, Schools focus on the standard answers for exams. Under the pressure of further education, students learn passively, and if they have questions, they directly look at the existing annotations, and rarely actively look up dictionaries. Under this cramming education, memorizing standard answers becomes the only way to learn, without the motivation to find answers on their own. Since it is just rote memorization, there will naturally be no difference in learning methods, and there will be no room for improving efficiency.

In fact, the structure of Chinese characters is extremely rigorous. Whether it is the way the characters themselves are formed or the way words and sentences are constructed, they all have a high degree of modularity, which can be used to understand, deduce characters, and improve learning efficiency. The ancients used these characteristics to learn characters in order to understand ancient and Modern articles and become a generation of literary giants. If modern people can make good use of scientific and technological techniques and integrate learning methods, it is not difficult to catch up with the ancients.

However, although dictionary apps are now very popular and there are many software programs for learning Chinese characters, only a few apps can truly improve learning efficiency. The reason is that the contemporary way of learning Chinese characters has changed. After a century of character simplification and vulgarization, it seems to be more in line with the standards of Western spoken language on the surface, but in reality, it has caused structural confusion and difficulty in retrieval, leading to reduced learning efficiency. It seems that one can never finish learning Chinese characters. Most of the applications designed only cater to the current learning methods, but do not design applications specifically for the characteristics of Chinese characters. Although there are many types, they are overwhelming.

We are very fortunate to have discovered these problems early, found the right direction, and put a lot of effort into the research and development of the "說文字典" (Shuo Wen Dictionary), designing learning methods such as "character shape analysis and character shape retrieval". Only by integrating ancient and modern characters for simultaneous learning can we trace the roots, deduce characters, and improve learning efficiency.

Now that the era of intelligence has arrived, the original idea has finally been realized. The dictionary itself can become a real learning tool. This must be thanks to the ancestors of Chinese civilization. They created Chinese characters so scientifically and elegantly that we descendants can achieve this ideal, and we also hope to fulfill a little of the responsibility of technological people and live up to the long history of Chinese characters.


**Key Features:**

1. **Tree Structure [Character Shape Analysis]:**

Uses a [tree structure] to analyze the character structure in detail, and lists [seal script] and [regular script] for comparison. You can also open each layer to observe the position of the radicals and analyze the changes in the strokes, and it is linked to the [vocabulary list]. A [click] action can view the relevant explanations, saving the cumbersome query process and improving learning efficiency.

Compared with the way Western characters are formed, the [prefixes, suffixes, and roots] of phonetic characters are mostly just [syllables] rather than complete words, while Chinese is a modular character that [uses characters to form characters]. Each [radical component] is a complete character, so it is most suitable to use a multi-layered [tree structure] to present its structure.

2. **Dynamic [Radical Prompts]:**

According to the entered [radical combination], the position of the radical is highlighted in the [character shape] of the single character.

Because Chinese is a [square] character, each [radical] that makes up the single character is not [arranged in a straight line] like the letters of phonetic characters, which is easy to identify, but is combined into a square character in a [two-dimensional arrangement], and some shapes have changed or been simplified, making it difficult to identify. However, just highlighting the position of the radical with a bright color can clearly present the original structure.

3. **Visualized [Character Shape Retrieval]:**

Different from other dictionaries on the market that use a fixed [radical table] or spoken [phonetic symbols, pinyin] to retrieve single characters, which leads to a lack of relevance in the retrieval results, it uses the [radical structure] defined by [philology] to accurately search for character shapes and dynamically classify single characters, so the retrieval results have clear and rigorous relevance. And you can search into each level of the single character, and then combine with the [radical prompt] function to achieve the effect of [what you see is what you get].

Due to the difference in the principles of character formation between Chinese and Western characters, after countless years of [phonetic evolution], the [spelling] of phonetic characters will change with spoken language, and most [prefixes, suffixes, and roots] only preserve syllables, not complete characters. Although [spoken language] in Chinese has evolved into different pronunciations and dialects, the characters themselves have developed independently and have not changed with [spoken language]. Most of the characters preserve the complete structure of the original character shape. As long as you use the original structure preserved by this character, you can search for a series of single characters with [derivative meaning] from any single character.

4. **Fast [Vocabulary Retrieval]:**

You can freely enter [simplified or traditional characters, synonyms], and the app will automatically find the correct vocabulary. You only need to enter a few characters in the vocabulary, and enter a question mark (or space) for other uncertain parts. Each different vocabulary found will be sorted according to the position of the entered [known words] in the vocabulary and marked in red to improve the speed of visual searching.

The characteristic of Chinese is that each single character is a fixed-size square and does not change its shape with the use of different words and sentences, unlike the [phonetic characters] whose length is not fixed and varies greatly. Therefore, the position of Chinese single characters in words and sentences can be accurately located, and it is also very neat after sorting. Using this characteristic of [square characters] to design [vocabulary retrieval] can allow users to easily and quickly find vocabulary.

5. **Fast [Reverse Definition Lookup]:**

Use [one finger] to click on the words in the [definition screen] to find the explanation, and completely record the query process. You can open the [history record] to click on each past record, and you can quickly restore to each operated action, including [radical tree, single character list, vocabulary list] can be restored to the original state. This is more useful than bookmarks and helps to repeatedly view various explanations back and forth.

6. **Complete [Collection of Words]:**

It is not just a simple collection of the names of [words] themselves, but a complete collection of the current query status, including [input content, radical tree, single character list, vocabulary list] can be completely collected, preserving all the relevance, and you can continue the query steps at any time when you call it.

7. **Font Zoom:**

If there is anything you can't see clearly, just use [two-finger gestures] to zoom in on the screen at any time.

8. **Vocabulary Pronunciation:**

You can easily listen to the pronunciation of vocabulary without spending your eyesight to look at phonetic symbols.

9. **Stroke Practice:**

Provides stroke practice that conforms to the [radical structure], which can be directly copied on the screen. It can be combined with [stroke analysis] to open each layer of the [radical tree] to observe each stroke of the [regular script], and you can see that the [stroke shape and structure] of the regular script are related to the corresponding [seal script]. If you want to write good handwriting, you must first write the radicals correctly, and then you can develop your personal creativity.

10. **Simplified and Traditional Chinese Support:**

You can enter [simplified and traditional] words at the same time, and [character shape retrieval and vocabulary retrieval] are all applicable. You can also press the [Simplified] button at any time, and each window will switch fonts without interrupting any operating status.


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Business Name: 說文字典工作室 (Shuo Wen Dictionary Studio)
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