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by glandium 1285 days ago
Japanese 漢字 reader here. I don't know how Chinese traditionally splits characters in parts, but I had really weird matchings. Like in the case of 日常 as the guessed word, the character I chose first was 剪, and that matched everything except the three strokes at the top of 常, and I have no idea why.In 剪, it highlighted the horizontal stroke at the top of 前, as well as 月 and the leftmost stroke of 刂. I guess the 日 comes from 月, which seems like a stretch, but the rest is a mystery.

Overall, as someone without knowledge of Chinese characters except the ones that exist in Japanese, I found it way too easy.

Interesting concept, though.

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Thanks for the feedback. I've updated the game to exclude individual strokes and single-stroke radicals from the character similarity search. I thought it would be interesting to drill all the way down to individual strokes, but it more often than not causes confusion and reveals too much of the target characters.