Site search

The new search uses the full-text search system sphinxsearch. Unfortunately, along with the benefits of the new search engine, we discovered that the old server lacked resources, and many of you saw only our error page when searching. This forced us to move to a new, much more powerful server. The move took place today, and we sincerely hope that you will see the server error page much less often, or never again. We also hope you will appreciate the new features and that searches will yield the results you need.

Besides the new search system and Q&A section, we have changed the URLs of dictionary entries for characters and words. The URL now contains the word written in Chinese characters or the character you are looking for itself. We have added a voting system (do not forget to rate this article), improved comments, and enabled image uploads in the Q&A section. Uploading images containing characters was very popular on the old forum, where users asked how to read and translate characters in various pictures.

Our immediate plans include improving sign-in by adding Twitter, Yandex and Mail.ru accounts to the options already available. If you already have an account on our site, you can link your existing Facebook, VKontakte and Google accounts and use their credentials to sign in. We also plan to redesign the site and let you bookmark individual pages so that you can find them more quickly later and follow changes to them through email notifications.

Last, but far from least, we will of course address the problem with handwritten character input in Chrome.

We are always happy to welcome you to our website.