The Interactive Map Of Chinese

Hanzi, the written linguistic communication of Chinese, has tens of thousands of assort characters. Many of those characters are non widely used. However, to hold out genuinely literate inwards written Chinese, y'all request a noesis of at to the lowest degree 3 to 4 yard characters.

The Hanzi Universe is an interesting experiment inwards mapping 8,615 Chinese characters according to their visual similarity. The Structural Similarity Index was used to exercise a map of the Chinese characters organized yesteryear their visual similarity. The Mapbox interactive mapping platform has together with then been used to let users to explore this map of 8,615 unlike Chinese characters.

You tin explore the Hanzi Universe map only every bit y'all would whatever other interactive map yesteryear zooming inwards together with out together with yesteryear panning the map. You tin every bit good search the map yesteryear pinyin, the official romanization organisation for Chinese. Characters on the map are colored yesteryear 1 of the 5 tones used when pronouncing the give-and-take inwards Mandarin. If y'all pick out a grapheme on the map y'all tin head to the give-and-take yesteryear clicking on the headphones icon. You tin every bit good stance the character's meaning, acquire the divulge of strokes that are used to brand the grapheme together with stance the word's pinyin spelling.


If y'all are interested inwards spoken Chinese together with then y'all mightiness every bit good similar the Phonemica interactive map. Phonemica is a actually interesting map of Chinese spoken stories. The projection was conceived every bit a agency to save spoken stories inwards PRC every bit spoken inwards the local vernacular.

Anyone tin tape a storey at habitation together with submit it to the map. Different Chinese languages together with dialects are differentiated on the map yesteryear unlike colored map markers. You tin every bit good filter the results shown on the map yesteryear location, keyword together with linguistic communication / dialect. If y'all click on a map marking y'all tin click through to head to the recording of the submitted story.

You tin honor to a greater extent than maps virtually languages spoken around the globe yesteryear using the languages tag.