{"id":1026,"date":"2005-07-02T16:44:09","date_gmt":"2005-07-02T07:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2005-08-04T20:10:21","modified_gmt":"2005-08-04T11:10:21","slug":"multiradical-kanji-dictionary-for-your-keitai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/02\/multiradical-kanji-dictionary-for-your-keitai\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiradical Kanji Dictionary for your Keitai"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of an elaborate not-getting-laid-at-all-cost strategy, I spent the best of my Friday night hacking at home on a whim, bravely ignoring 1am drunken phone calls from a lonely ex, I didn’t stop until I basically had a working prototype. <\/p>\n

And thus here you go:
\nDr Dave’s Keitai Kanji Multiradical Dictionary<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n

Of course, you can use this dictionary from any browser, but it has been made especially compact, so as to offer convenient browsing on a small keitai screen.<\/p>\n

Why bother making yet another multiradical dictionary when Jim Breen<\/a> (and many others, most likely) already offers a very decent one on his site?<\/p>\n

Two reasons:<\/p>\n

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  1. I wanted one that be easy to use from a keitai. Jim Breen’s is still a bit heavy to load and browse with a small screen.<\/li>\n
  2. I wanted a smarter system for radical selection. All the systems I’ve seen so far let you choose your radicals from a checkbox list of all common radicals. Such a list can be quite long. This makes finding each radical quite tedious and particularly cumbersome on a keitai. Mine use a slightly different approach, that requires at least some knowledge of basic kanjis, but make it much faster then.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Instructions<\/h3>\n

    Fairly obvious, really:<\/p>\n