Great little tool. It has helped me out many times when I'm out and about and there is a word I need. One major problem I have though is deciding which word to use. For any given word (I'm mainly talking about English to Simplified Chinese here), there are multiple translations, all of which have differing meanings and usages.
The feature I would like to see: For a translated word let us know, among the results, what type of word it is, i.e. Verb, Noun, Adjective. I realize this would require re-writing the dictionaries, but no dictionary is complete without this feature.
As to the existing feature update. When entering pinyin to begin a search, all words must be written in lowercase and separated by a space. Most phones today explicitly set the first letter of a word to be upper case, requiring us to switch. Converting the search parameter to lower case before performing the search will fix this problem. Pinyin without spaces can be fixed by first parsing the string. Since pinyin is simple compared to English, a simple lookup table can speed up the parsing.
Regards
The feature I would like to see: For a translated word let us know, among the results, what type of word it is, i.e. Verb, Noun, Adjective. I realize this would require re-writing the dictionaries, but no dictionary is complete without this feature.
As to the existing feature update. When entering pinyin to begin a search, all words must be written in lowercase and separated by a space. Most phones today explicitly set the first letter of a word to be upper case, requiring us to switch. Converting the search parameter to lower case before performing the search will fix this problem. Pinyin without spaces can be fixed by first parsing the string. Since pinyin is simple compared to English, a simple lookup table can speed up the parsing.
Regards