Keynote Speech

Abstract

When we study, it is inevitable to look up the dictionary. The traditional searching methods of the Chinese dictionaries are mainly based on the radicals, stroke sequence, or spelling. For those who have used dictionaries would have encountered the frustration of not knwoing how to find specific characters. For example when you are using a dictionary with the radical searching, what are the radicals of “凹, 五, 七, 九”? For dictionaries with the stroke searching method, what are the stroke sequence or the total strokes of “凸, 齲, 龜, 龘”? For dictionaries with the spelling searching method, what are the spelling of “戁, 奅, 尀”?