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Oh wow, the drawing mechanism is really satisfying.

Too bad about not supporting 漢字. The only half-decent IME pad is on Windows. Online ones (kanji.sljfaq.org) and Xorg ones (ibus-mozc) are just horrendously bad at detection. I usually have to resort to multi-radical lookups.

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Do you mean multi-part? Each kanji only has one radical, but composed of one or more "parts". jiso.org has this lookup feature.

(Late response, sorry.) It may not be proper to say this, but if you look at 加, to me it's clearly the 力 radical + the 口 radical. I know that officially it's classified under 力. wwwjdic has a tool based around my observation, called multi-radical lookup: http://www.edrdg.org/cgi-bin/wwwjdic/wwwjdic?1R

Sometimes it won't include one of the radicals that are clearly there, though. But this tool is frequently helpful to me when IME pads fail me, and stroke counts are fuzzy.

What do you think of nciku.com?

(Late response, sorry.) Seems focused on Chinese, but Han unification means it's still somewhat useful. The drawing feels clunky and I see both my mouse cursor and their custom pen cursor at the same time. The drawing window is rather small. Prediction seems worse than Windows IME, but better than mozc IME.

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