August 12, 2025
I've made some small improvements to the chinese character searching. Now the hover over text won't show duplicates or empty translations. I was about to start implementing handling simplified characters, and then I realized that this can get very complicated because there are some characters that are both considered simplified in one reading and traditional in a different reading. And should I be considering the Traditional/Simplified site setting?! Why did Chinese have to be so complicated with two writing systems?
Anyway, here are the new translations for today:
- deer
- vinegar
- to drag
- to dip in
- to scoop
August 7, 2025
I've started working on an exciting new feature!!! I have been wanting a tool that can take some chinese characters and translate them for me, not in any sophisticated way like google translate does, but just go one by one and see if the translation is in my database. So now you can input a string of chinese characters in the search bar, and the app will show a breakdown of what each word is. Here's an example. It's not perfect right now, and I've noted a bunch of things I'd like to improve already.
Apart from that, here are today's new translations:
- never would have thought
- classifier (for sentences, words)
- a word
- last week
- smart (I already had two translations for this word, but my aunt taught me another one!)
August 5, 2025
My aunt has been telling me more new Teochew words faster than I can write them down! Anyway, here are just a few translations I've added since the last update:
- to pay
- to borrow
- no big deal
- Can I borrow two dollars from you?
- I borrowed two dollars from you
July 31, 2025
Today, I added the translation for the word "spatula". That's it. Just spatula. Adding this one word was honestly so much work because I had to add another glyph to my custom font.
But there's more work going on behind the scenes to handle Traditional vs Simplified characters! And once again, if I'm doing things correctly, you really won't notice a difference. Yet.
July 29, 2025
I did a big rehaul of how the Chinese characters are stored in the database. Previously, I was always storing the simplified versions of characters by default, but this was problematic because I found examples where two different traditional characters simplified to the same character.
Anyway, if I did everything correctly...you won't notice anything different. yet.
Finally, here are the new translations since the last update:
- owner (of a store or company)
- fresh
- beach
- manager
- bottle
- necklace
- earring