imron Posted July 4, 2021 at 06:48 AM Report Posted July 4, 2021 at 06:48 AM Wubi is weird sometimes, and it sometimes makes strange choices in how to split characters, I guess to help avoid conflicts. Wait till you see characters like 追 1 Quote
大块头 Posted October 10, 2021 at 09:35 PM Report Posted October 10, 2021 at 09:35 PM Another character that was making me scratch my head today: 像 You'd think it would be WQKE (which doesn't correspond to any character), not WQJE. It's treating the third character root like it's the double-box root in 临 (JTYJ). Quote
Publius Posted October 11, 2021 at 04:57 AM Report Posted October 11, 2021 at 04:57 AM Hmm, I don't know where you get your stroke order data, but I actually write a sideway 日 in handwriting, like in here 1 Quote
889 Posted October 11, 2021 at 05:39 AM Report Posted October 11, 2021 at 05:39 AM You've posted the kanji stroke order Publius, and so far as I can tell that order is used in Japan and Taiwan. But Mainland sources all seem to use 大块头's approach. And no, I wasn't aware of the difference before either. 1 Quote
Publius Posted October 11, 2021 at 06:05 AM Report Posted October 11, 2021 at 06:05 AM Yes, I know that's a Japanese site, 889. Things must have changed since 王永民 and I learned how to write... 1 Quote
大块头 Posted October 11, 2021 at 05:04 PM Report Posted October 11, 2021 at 05:04 PM Thanks @Publius, great to see you around the forums again. How were you taught to write 晚? It looks like the Japanese write it with a sideways 日, but the wubi 86 code is JQKQ Quote
imron Posted October 12, 2021 at 10:12 AM Report Posted October 12, 2021 at 10:12 AM Quoting myself: On 7/4/2021 at 4:48 PM, imron said: Wubi is weird sometimes, and it sometimes makes strange choices in how to split characters, I guess to help avoid conflicts. Far from being a perfect system, it’s a best effort system that makes compromises and contains contradictions and inconsistencies. Attempts to fix its drawbacks (wubi 98) were not popular with users and never really took off. All you can do is look at weird things in it, and make a mental note to accept them within wubi’s imperfect worldview. 1 Quote
Publius Posted October 12, 2021 at 12:35 PM Report Posted October 12, 2021 at 12:35 PM Hi, thanks, 大块头. I'm 90% sure that I write 像 and 晚 differently: 像 with 日+丿 and 晚 with 口+丿. I asked a friend who is a 90后 teacher and claims to be a super diligent, straight A student in elementary school. She said she wrote them both the same way, i.e. 口+丿. Perhaps my habits are too much influenced by Wubi. I vaguely remember a discussion about the stroke order of 免/兔/鬼... But I can't remember whether it was here or back in school or from an educational TV program or somewhere else. Anyway, like imron said, Wubi is not a perfect system. If you decide to use it, you'll have to accept its many quirks and irregularities, including perhaps wrong stroke orders. 1 Quote
大块头 Posted January 30, 2022 at 08:05 PM Report Posted January 30, 2022 at 08:05 PM Another interesting bit of wubi 86 weirdness. I wonder if the stroke order for 龙 has changed? The sequence DXI isn't used for any other characters. Edit: I guess it's because the last character root is 匕, which when written on its own has the final stroke indicated in blue. Quote
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