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cschiller / zhongwen

Official source code of the "Zhongwen" Chrome extension
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zhongwen-chinese-english/kkmlkkjojmombglmlpbpapmhcaljjkde
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Optional decomposition/etymology information #115

Open NicolasWinsten opened 5 months ago

NicolasWinsten commented 5 months ago

Hey

Love the extension. It's very useful for someone like me who is learning Chinese. Because I'm learning though, I find myself constantly going to a site like this one to look up etymology information (what the character is depicting or which component the character's sound comes from).

I like the simplicity of the extension, but I think it might help students like me if some of this information was added to the character popup. An example dataset of such information is here

What do you think?

NicolasWinsten commented 5 months ago

License information of the dataset here

cschiller commented 5 months ago

Hi @NicolasWinsten, thanks for your suggestion. I wouldn't want to add this to the pop-up window itself. I could, however, maybe add a keyboard shortcut that opens a new browser tab displaying this information. This is what I've already done when linking to external dictionaries. It depends on whether there are appropriate pages I can link to.

NicolasWinsten commented 5 months ago

Maybe you'd like to link to that website I use. You can route to a character's page using its codepoint. I don't know any other place that has the stroke order, etymology, and basic decomposition nicely displayed.

cschiller commented 5 months ago

That site looks like some sort of a demo. It doesn't say who runs it. It's not exactly what I would want to link to. Maybe there are other online resources that show the information you're interested in?