My stuff: English-English dicts for Pleco, hanzi/HSK tools, word charts/graphs...

[alanmd]

Hi, I hope this isn't considered spam, I just thought that some on this board might find the stuff that I recently shared useful. In no particular order:

• I converted Webster's Unabridged (1913) and WordNet (tons of links between words) for use with Pleco:  http://hskhsk.com/dictionaries
• The original reason for the site was to share some graphs I made of the characters/words in each HSK level: http://hskhsk.com/graphs and up-to-date HSK word lists, which are surprisingly hard to find: http://hskhsk.com/word-lists
• This analysis tool can take either a vocab list or block of (simplified- you'll need to use a converter for Traditional) text and analyse the words/characters within it, reporting a few different things such as what HSK level the text/vocab is at: http://hskhsk.pythonanywhere.com/hanzi
• This script is like a very simple C-E dictionary based on CC-CEDICT, but shows lots of information on character composition and word/char compounds: http://hskhsk.pythonanywhere.com/cidian?q=%E5%8F%AF%E8%83%BD

Everything on the site is being actively worked on from time to time; let me know if you can suggest any bug fixes or improvements. Thanks!

[roddy]

Not spam, and I think your site has picked up a few links all by itself. We're happy to have product / service providers on here, as they're often informed and useful people.

[alanmd]

Thanks to a great idea from Roddy about listing tone combinations I added an Advanced Search tool. This allows you to search for words by pinyin or hanzi using wildcards/regular expressions. You can filter by specific HSK level, and can either view a simple word list (with popup and clickable info) or see complete definitions inline.

 

A few examples:

• 2 character words at HSK levels 4-6 that have a tone 4 tone 2 combination
• 2 character words from all HSK levels that consiist of a 'zh' sound, followed by a 'q' or a 'ch'
• Words of any length with two or more 'x' in the pinyin, where one of the words is 小

The possibilities are endless.. let me know if you find it useful, and feel free to suggest new features!

 

Updates:

 

17th December: I added a "Download flashcards" feature to that page that serves up a text file of the results list you are viewing, just in case anyone is still reading this thread and feels like giving it a try...!

 

18th December: You can now choose how the list is sorted, and can search for subcomponents and compounds of a list of characters. Some of this might be a bit over the top, but it allowed me to tie the advanced search and the dictionary together quite nicely.

 

19th December: Added some inline help to my 汉字 analysis tool, it is now usable without having a Computer Science degree, try it here.

 

30th December: You can now see HSK and all words homophones (words same pinyin spelling), both ignoring and taking account of tones: http://hskhsk.pythonanywhere.com/homophones?chars=1&tones=yes&expand=no&hsk=yes

Edited February 24, 2014 at 05:23 PM by alanmd

[alanmd]

I was interviewed about the script by the people who host it, PythonAnywhere. Might be of interest if you want to know more about how it works: http://blog.pythonanywhere.com/79/

Edited February 24, 2014 at 05:25 PM by alanmd

[alanmd]

A few people reported that my site was blocked within China. I have switched the hosting provider for http://hskhsk.com to Amazon AWS, which seems to offer better availability than the one that I was using. Let me know if there are still any problems accessing it.

[alanmd]

It's been a few years, but I finally got around to sharing the source code to all of my tools, graph generation, etc. on GitHub: https://github.com/glxxyz/hskhsk.com

 

[mungouk]

Alan!  Welcome back (I hope)...!