Introduction to dictionary items

BETA

Dictionary items are items we’ve vendored in from CC-CEDICT. They always consist of multiple characters, but this may change in the future.

Viewing the dictionary

To start using dictionary items, you’ll need to first enroll into the Beta. To do so, navigate to your application settings and scroll until you find the Enroll into the Dictionary Beta.

Toggle it on and hit save.

Accessing the dictionary

After you navigate back to the Dashboard, you should see in the Curriculum dropdown a new link.

Click on that and you’ll be presented with the Dictionary Search.

Dictionary Search

You can type in pinyin, characters, or any English word and the page will populate with close matches.

Once you find a Dictionary item you’re interested in adding, click on it to navigate to its individual page.

Dictionary item page

Here is where you can do a few things, like adding your own definitions or changing the primary definition. Let’s go over what’s displayed.

Pronunciation

You can see the pinyin and zhuyin right underneath the Dictionary item. Clicking on the little Play button will play the sound in your preferred voice.

Add a dictionary item

To add it to your reviews, just click on the Add button on the top right.

This will queue it into your reviews. Adding an item to your reviews is considered a “lesson” and is why you may see how it’s SRS Stage one.

Definitions

Here are all of the definitions this Dictionary item has. These “official definitions” we handle a little differently in our reviews:

• Everything that is separated by a semicolon counts as its own individual answer.
• Parentheses are also ignored in answering.

Other than that, it’s the same as answering with any other item in HanziHero.

If the given “official definitions” are less than satisfactory you can add your own definitions.