Fun

This section contains games involving Han characters for people who want to bring a gamified perspective to their learning.

Character learning

• Transcription practice — type through a text with your normal IME or the imported RIME dictionaries.
• Character deconstruction — look at a character and build an accepted IDS analysis.
• Component lookup practice — learn total strokes → first stroke → component.
• Make a character — freely build IDS structures and see which encoded characters they match.

Word games

• 成語接龍 Chengyu Jielong — free-type a Chengyu chain against the imported Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and topolectal Wiktionary data.

璇璣圖 Xuanji Tu

Su Hui’s Xuanji Tu is a 29×29 brocade palindrome-poem. This page lets you explore it as a coloured grid, then apply reading rules (paths) that extract lines and stanzas.

象棋 Xiangqi

Xiangqi is a Chinese strategy game derived from chaturanga. Cannons, advisors, elephants, the palace, and the river give it movement rules unlike western chess.

This is an ASCII representation of Xiangqi inspired by Andrew West’s work at BabelStone. The output can be copied for correspondence games.