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mattington · 05-26-2014, 09:04 AM

Cheers for the Chinese dictionary! Pretty annoying that Kobo doesn't support adding new dictionaries and that you have to hack it this way, but great for those of us who read in Mandarin.

As for feedback - it seems I can only look up a single character at a time in the dictionary (Kobo 6" running 3.3.0), but in Chinese very often words are combinations of two characters. For instance, 小 means 'little', 心 means 'heart', but together 小心 means 'careful'. If I looked up each individually I'd have no idea what the word actually meant! Any way that you know of to select two characters and look them up as a pair? Does your dictionary have paired characters?

05-26-2014, 09:04 AM	#14
mattington Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Charlotte, NC (USA) Device: Kobo Aura 6"	Cheers for the Chinese dictionary! Pretty annoying that Kobo doesn't support adding new dictionaries and that you have to hack it this way, but great for those of us who read in Mandarin. As for feedback - it seems I can only look up a single character at a time in the dictionary (Kobo 6" running 3.3.0), but in Chinese very often words are combinations of two characters. For instance, 小 means 'little', 心 means 'heart', but together 小心 means 'careful'. If I looked up each individually I'd have no idea what the word actually meant! Any way that you know of to select two characters and look them up as a pair? Does your dictionary have paired characters? Last edited by mattington; 05-26-2014 at 08:47 PM. Reason: Edited for feedback after usage.