Apr

4

2009

Chinese Word of the Day Update

Category: Chinese, Mac, Web Apps, Widgets, Windows

I had a few free hours today, and I had a chance to implement some suggestions to my Mandarin word of the day service http://cn.robrohan.com.  Here is what’s new:

  • Fixed the Mac OS X widget to allow for multiple lines of English text on the back side
  • Added an initial HSK filter so the words the service sends out are not quite so obscure
  • Added several English words to the definition list.  So you’ll see “woman; female; daughter” not just “daughter”
  • Updated to the latest version of http://cc-cedict.org/wiki
  • Doubled the word of the day to 2 words per day (which makes “word of the day” seem kind of silly, but eh.)

The twitter post now looks like this to indicate the HSK level of the word:

今天的单词: 女 (女) nǚ — woman; female; daughter HSK(1)

And the OS X widget looks like this:

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You’ll need to download the latest widget to get some of these improvements.  You can get the new widget here: http://cn.robrohan.com.

I have not updated the Google gadget because Google changed the format or something and I’ll have to write a new gadget.  The HSK filter will still work (so the words wont be as weird), but you wont know if the word is level 1,2,3 or 4.

Happy studying

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