JPS61163464A - Kanji dictionary retrieving device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To shorten the time necessary for retrieving an area where a partial stroke exists and collating the retrieval result and to retrieve quickly the desired KANJI (Chinese character) by providing a stroke number indicating part and making it possible to extract the partial stroke for including plural partial strokes at every stroke. CONSTITUTION:When a control part 10 collates the plural groups of partial strokes retrieved by the 2nd retrieving part 7, the stroke number indicating part 11 is so constituted to indicate the number of partial strokes to be collated. When in terms of KANJI retrieval processing plural partial strokes included in a retrieved KANJI are inputted with the partial stroke retrieval selected, the partial stroke for including the inputted partial strokes or KANJI are retrieved through an inclusion relationship memory part 6. At this time the control part 10 extracts the partial stroke from the number of strokes given from the indicating part 11 and stroke number information on the partial stroke to offer a learner, and makes him input his desired KANJI if he has it. Thus the time necessary for retrieving the area where the partial stroke exists and collating the retrieval result can be shortened, and the desired KANJI can be quickly retrieved.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention is a type of computer-aided learning device, and particularly relates to a kanji dictionary search device aimed at beginners including foreigners.

A characteristic of Japanese writing is that it contains a large number of ideographic characters, kanji, in addition to kana, which is a single phonetic character, and this is a major obstacle for foreigners to learn Japanese. It has become.

At this time, it is desired to provide a kanji dictionary search device that allows even beginners with no prior knowledge of kanji to search easily and quickly.

[Conventional technology]

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a conventional example of a kanji dictionary search device, which is similar to FIG.

l has kanji information such as reading, meaning, etymology, stroke order, idioms,
A kanji information storage unit that stores the meanings of idioms, stroke patterns, etc.

Reference numeral 2 denotes an index storage unit that stores, as a search table, a list of search keys for each stroke number, radical, or reading, that is, a list of kanji corresponding to the index.

3 is a display section that displays stroke patterns, search information, etc.;

Reference numeral 4 denotes a keyboard-type input section for inputting a search key or a desired search kanji through the display information displayed on the display section 3;

Reference numeral 5 denotes a first search unit that searches the index storage unit 2 or the kanji information storage unit 1 for a kanji character corresponding to the input search key or kanji information corresponding to the input search kanji character.

Reference numeral 6 denotes an inclusion relationship storage unit that stores data indicating inclusion relationships between partial strokes included in the entire stroke of the kanji to be searched and other partial strokes that include the partial stroke as a partial stroke.

7 is a second search unit that searches the inclusion relationship storage unit 6;

Reference numeral 8 denotes a pattern storage unit that stores stroke patterns for all partial strokes stored in the inclusion relation data storage unit 6.

9 is a third search unit that searches the pattern storage unit 8;

Further, reference numeral 10 denotes a control section that manages matching of a plurality of groups of partial strokes searched by the second search section 7 and controls each section.

FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram showing the inclusion relationship of partial strokes stored in the inclusion relationship storage unit 6, where ■ to ■ indicate the identification codes of each partial stroke, and a certain partial stroke indicates the other part that the arrow points to. 0, which indicates that it is included in the stroke, e.g.
・" and r-J in ■ indicate that it is included in "Hiki 1" in ■.

FIG. 4 is a table showing the storage contents of the inclusion relation storage unit 6, where ■ is the identification code of the partial stroke, ■ is the address of the pattern storage unit 8 where the stroke pattern of the partial stroke is stored, and ■ is the partial stroke Identification code of other substrokes that include the substroke.

■ is the identification code when the partial stroke corresponds to a radical, ■ is the identification code when the partial stroke corresponds to a kanji, and ■ is information on the number of strokes of the partial stroke.

With the above configuration, a search for kanji is performed according to the following procedure.

1) When the device is started, a selection menu of four types of search modes (nine orders) is displayed on the display section 3.

(a) Stroke number search 佽) Radical search (C) Reading search (d) Partial stroke search 2) When the learner selects one of the displayed search modes with the cursor via the input unit 4.

2-1) If you select stroke count search, radical search, or reading search.

b) Depending on the selected search mode, "Please enter the number of strokes of the kanji you want to search for" - r Please enter the radical of the kanji you want to search 1 or r Please enter the reading of the kanji you want to search 1 is displayed on the display section 3.

口) When you enter the number of strokes, radical, or reading of the kanji you want to search according to the search mode, the search table (list of kanji) corresponding to the search key is read out from the index storage unit 2 and displayed according to each search mode. When a desired kanji is manually entered from the list of 9 displayed kanji in section 3, the corresponding kanji information is read out from kanji information storage section 1, displayed on display section 3, and presented to the learner.

2-2) When partial stroke search is selected.

b) Among the partial strokes stored in the inclusion relationship storage unit 6, only partial strokes that do not include other partial strokes (■, ■ and ■ in the conceptual diagram of FIG. 3) are searched by the second search unit 7. The stroke pattern of the partial stroke is retrieved from the stroke pattern storage section 8 by the third search section 9 and displayed on the display section 3.

At the same time, please indicate some partial strokes included in the kanji you wish to search for.A guide for ``j'' will be displayed on the display section 3.

口) Via the input unit 4 according to the display on the display unit 3.

When a partial stroke included in a kanji to be searched is input with the cursor, the partial stroke or kanji that includes the input partial stroke is selected from among the partial strokes stored in the inclusion relation storage section 6 in the second search section 7. The stroke pattern of the partial stroke is searched by the third search section 9 from the stroke pattern storage section 8 and displayed on the display section 3. Please.

If not, please specify some partial strokes included in the kanji you wish to search for. A J guide will be displayed on the display section 3.

c) If a desired kanji is found among those displayed on the display section 3, the desired kanji is inputted with the cursor via the input section 4 and the presentation of kanji information is requested.

Corresponding kanji information is read from the kanji information storage section 1 by the first search section 5 and displayed on the display section 3.

2) If the desired kanji is not among those displayed on the display section 3, use the cursor to input a partial stroke included in the desired kanji from among the displayed partial strokes (9 strokes)
Similarly, the partial strokes or kanji that include the input partial stroke will be displayed on the display section 3, and at the same time r, if there is a kanji that you want to search for, please specify it. If not, the guide ``Please specify some partial strokes included in it'' will be displayed on the display section 3, and the process will return to step c).

In the conventional example above, even learners who do not know how to count, radical, or pronunciation of 6 strokes can search for the kanji r)'', r M J, etc. included in the kanji, for example. It is structured as follows.

In this example, it is possible to search using only *'7J or r month 1, but as will be explained below, the search time can be shortened by using both 9.

FIG. 5 shows a part of the inclusive relationship of partial strokes stored in the inclusive relationship storage unit 6. The desired kanji is ``Qing J'', which is divided into two characters ``shi'' and ``AJ''. This shows the flow when searching starts from a partial stroke.

The flow of this search is generally as shown in Figure 6.
From the partial strokes represented by Sl and S2, through the partial strokes represented by ○ marks, as shown by ■ marks,
The purpose is to find a partial stroke that includes Sl and 82.

FIG. 7 is a simplified representation of FIG. 6.

The hunting area indicates an area where a partial stroke including 51 and 32 exists.

That is, the areas where the partial strokes containing Sl or S2 exist are the area Al-81-CI or the area A2-82-C2, respectively, but the areas where the partial strokes containing Sl and 82 exist are these areas. area A narrower than
3-82-CL.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

In the kanji dictionary search device having the above configuration, when searching using a plurality of partial strokes, in FIG. Area A2-82 where strokes exist
- Since the partial strokes that include Sl and 32 are extracted by searching the entire area of C2 and comparing the search results of both, it is necessary to search the area where each partial stroke exists and compare the search results. There was a problem in that it took time to collate and therefore it was not possible to quickly search for kanji.

[Means for solving problems]

The kanji dictionary search device according to the present invention includes a kanji information storage section that stores kanji information, a display section that displays one-character stroke patterns and search information, and a search key or a search section that uses the display information displayed on the display section. an input section for inputting kanji; a first search section for searching the kanji information storage section; a partial stroke included in the entire stroke of each kanji to be searched; an inclusion relationship storage unit that stores inclusion relationships with partial strokes and stroke number information of each partial stroke; a second search unit that searches the inclusion relationship storage unit; and a partial stroke searched by the second search unit. The above-mentioned problem is solved by providing a control section for comparing a plurality of groups of strokes, and a stroke number instruction section for instructing the number of strokes of partial strokes to be checked in the control section.

[Effect]

In place of FIG. 7, FIG. 8 shows the area where each partial stroke exists divided stepwise according to the number of strokes, and represents the case where Sl is set to "r" and S2 is set to 'N'.

r shi J has 3 strokes and ``Mj has 4 strokes.

The desired kanji should be seven strokes or more. Therefore, in this case, matching is not performed for partial strokes of 6 strokes or less (hunting area), and for every 9 strokes of 7 strokes or more, areas where there are partial strokes that include 81 and areas that include 52 are compared. By searching for each number of strokes and comparing both search results, partial strokes that include Sl and 82 are extracted for each number of strokes, so it is possible to search for areas where each partial stroke exists and collate the search results. Therefore, it is possible to quickly search for a desired kanji.

〔Example〕

The gist of the present invention will be specifically explained below using examples.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention, in addition to the same reference numerals as in FIG. 2 the conventional example.

Reference numeral 11 denotes a stroke number instruction section that instructs the number of strokes of the partial strokes to be compared when the plurality of groups of partial strokes searched by the second search section 7 are compared in the control section 10.

With this configuration, a search for a kanji is performed using the same procedure as in the conventional example, but if one-part stroke search is selected, in the procedure of item 2-2) above, a kanji that is included in the kanji to be searched is used. When a plurality of partial strokes are input, the partial strokes or kanji that include the input partial strokes are searched from among the partial strokes stored in the inclusion relation storage unit 6, and the stroke pattern of the partial strokes is stored in the stroke pattern storage unit. 8 is retrieved and displayed on the display section 3. At this time, the control section 10 selects the number of strokes from the 8th stroke according to the number of strokes given from the 9th stroke number indicating section 11 and the stroke number information of the partial strokes in the column (■) of FIG.
To explain using the example shown in the figure, first, by comparing the 7 partial strokes that include ``shi1'' with the 7 partial strokes that include ``r bar'', +r.

Extract the 7 partial strokes that include `` and ``J'' and present them to the learner, and if there is a kanji that the learner wants among them, include that kanji, and if not, include it in the desired kanji. Enter the partial strokes that appear, and then repeat 8 steps until the desired kanji is searched.
Continue the same steps in the order of 1 stroke, 9 strokes, and so on.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the second aspect of the present invention, partial strokes that include multiple partial strokes can be extracted for each number of strokes, so it does not take time to search for the area where each partial stroke exists and to collate the search results. Therefore, a desired kanji can be quickly searched for.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a conventional example. FIG. 3, FIG. 4, FIG. 5, FIG. 6, and FIG. 7 are explanatory diagrams of the inclusion relationship storage unit. FIG. 8 is a detailed explanatory diagram of the present invention. In fig. 1 is a kanji information storage section, and 3 is a display section. 4 is an input section, and 5 is a first search section. 6 is an inclusion relationship storage unit; 7 is a second search unit. Reference numeral 10 indicates a control section, and 11 indicates a stroke number instruction section. Figure 3: Thatch 4 Figure B: Closed

Claims (1)

[Claims] a kanji information storage unit that stores kanji information; a display unit that displays stroke patterns and search information; an input unit that inputs a search key or a search kanji via the display information displayed on the display unit; and the kanji character. A first search unit that searches the information storage unit, and the inclusion relationship between the partial strokes included in the entire stroke of each kanji to be searched and other partial strokes that include the partial stroke as a partial stroke, and the partial strokes. a second search unit that searches the inclusion relationship storage unit; and a control unit that collates a plurality of groups of partial strokes searched by the second search unit; A kanji dictionary search device comprising: a stroke number instruction unit that instructs the number of partial strokes to be compared in the control unit.