hey Scott et al.!

I spent the past two hours putting together a custom list of Chinese provinces and capitals. I organized the list into 6 categories: provinces, autonomous regions, SARs, municipalities, capitals, and vocabulary. Just published it, too--hope some of you find it helpful.

Some of the provinces and capitals weren't in the database -- like 吉林, 合肥, 海口, etc. But when I added them, they were added automatically. Not just to my list, but to the database as well. So a question: now any combination of characters can be added so long as it's part of a Custom List?

That would answer my last post about 姓名，too.

Hey, this is awesome! Thanks!

Indeed, thanks!

And actually, adding words to our system is built into that widget that you use to add words to the custom list, which has been used to add words to the queue for a while now, so allowing users to add words to our database is not new. And yeah, words added are available to all users. We eventually look over them and occasionally tweak the definitions.

So yeah, as long as we have the individual characters and the pinyin is formatted correctly, you can put in any word you want into our system, and they don't have to be part of a list to stay there. So far about 1500 words have been added by users.

Perhaps our eventual profiles could include a stat for Skritter builder: new words added to the Skritter database!

Nice list, dude!

Nice list, I was considering writing that today actually :) Thanks heaps!

Yeah, thanks for this! I just added it to my lists.

I had a conversation with my girlfriend today. I told her guess what, I can write out 黑龙江 and 青海. (Surprise!) To which she said, Murray James why would you even want to *go* there?

So much for gratitude... but at least some of you find it useful :-D

Hi, I'm practicing using the provinces list, which is great. However, you transliterate both 陕西 and 山西 as "Shanxi Province", which makes it impossible to reliably guess which one it is.

According to Wikipedia, quote,
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By regular Hanyu Pinyin rules, if tone marks are not written, both Shaanxi and the neighbouring province of Shanxi should be spelled "Shanxi"; the difference is in tone: Shānxī and Shǎnxī. To make the difference clear without tonal marks, the spelling "Shaanxi" was contrived (following the romanization system of Yuen Ren Chao) for the province of Shǎnxī, while "Shanxi" is used for the province of Shānxī. Shaanxi is the official spelling on Chinese Government's official web portal.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaanxi

So, could you please update 陕西 to "Shaanxi Province"?

James

Ah yes, 陕西 is now "Shaanxi province".