FindAKanji

The basic principle behind this program is 'Learning by Doing'. The user is encouraged to extend a database with acquired information about Chinese characters. This information may turn out useful in the integrated text editor, for both reading and writing.

So there are two different uses for this program:

- Learn about Chinese characters. Gain, store and memorize knowledge about specific characters.
- Input devices for Chinese (and Japanese) characters. For use without much prior knowledge.

The name may be misleading: the program may not only be useful for Kanji but for arbitrary Chinese characters and beyond.

One of the main features is a character database based purely on visual similarities. This database allows to identify unknown characters without prior knowledge about the character.

As a starting point an example database is provided, which allows easy searching for some Chinese character among the 20.914 CJK-Ideographs of Unicode 1.0.1.