October 13, 2022
This was one of those days where I started out doing one small thing, and then ended up down a long rabbit hole. I was researching the word 内 (lai6), and then before you know it, I've restructured the database again 😬. But the page for house now has more information on it!
New translations:
- to cook
- jicama
- hour
- minute
- inside
October 12, 2022
I have a big feature in the works. For some "compound" words, you can now see a breakdown of what each character means. Look at the page for hello or pink for a couple of examples! I did manually add these to the database, so it's going to be a long, kind of slow project to actually fill in this information for more words.
New translations:
- raw
- breakfast
- evening
- early
- noon
October 10, 2022
I have just about two weeks left in my sabbatical, and I'm trying to make sure I have everything sorted out so the updates are slowing down a bit. The one big change I added was that a translation will be shown directly if you search a word that's designated as a synonym of another word. So trying to translate "hi" will take you directly to the page for "hello" instead of showing search options.
New translations:
- straight
- don't need to
- to open, to turn on
- to bite
- to rise
- fruit
- You don't have to turn on the AC
October 7, 2022
A bunch of little things today...
I had this crazy bug where all of the translations would show up if you searched the word "0". But that's fixed now. I also fixed a bug that would result in duplicate words showing up when you searched.
I also added a new feature--you can now search using traditional characters!
And I updated the UI a little. If you're looking at the site on desktop or with a larger viewport, the tables won't take up the full width of the page.
And finally, I have some content updates. I created a new category for "Linking/Transitive Verbs", and moved some of the words that were under "Basics" to it. (Yeah, I googled "types of verbs" and I'm not even sure I fully understand it all) I also added these translations:
- box
- bag
- completed
- to take
- Eat all of it
October 6, 2022
After looking at the various possible Chinese characters to choose from for the translation for "to boil", I decided that it was time to start supporting alternate Chinese characters in the database. I'm not totally sure I love the implementation that I chose for it, but it's a start.
New translations, all food related:
- salty
- sweet
- fried rice
- jujube
- to pan fry
- to stir fry
- to brew
- to make coffee
- to make tea
- leftover