A Chinese character teaching system using structure theory and morphing technology.

Linjia Sun,Min Liu,Xiaohui Liang,Jiajia Hu

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0100987

Abstract

This paper proposes a Chinese character teaching system by using the Chinese character structure theory and the 2D contour morphing technology. This system, including the offline phase and the online phase, automatically generates animation for the same Chinese character from different writing stages to intuitively show the evolution of shape and topology in the process of Chinese characters teaching. The offline phase builds the component models database for the same script and the components correspondence database for different scripts. Given two or several different scripts of the same Chinese character, the online phase firstly divides the Chinese characters into components by using the process of Chinese character parsing, and then generates the evolution animation by using the process of Chinese character morphing. Finally, two writing stages of Chinese characters, i.e., seal script and clerical script, are used in experiment to show the ability of the system. The result of the user experience study shows that the system can successfully guide students to improve the learning of Chinese characters. And the users agree that the system is interesting and can motivate them to learn.

Highlights

Chinese character is well known as an ideographic and hieroglyphic system, which is the oldest writing system and is still used at present
To get outstanding animation of Chinese characters, this paper focuses on 2D morphing technology
In a Chinese character, the possible components are different in the composition of strokes, and the unselected strokes in the input characters are minimized

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Introduction

Chinese character is well known as an ideographic and hieroglyphic system, which is the oldest writing system and is still used at present. The evolution of` 日'' in the five major scripts could have been influenced by the introduction of the brush as a writing tool, which made lines easier to draw than circles. Chinese characters experienced different writing stages and there are five major scripts, i.e., oracle bone script, bronze script, seal script, clerical script and regular script. These scripts are intrinsically related, the shape and the topology have had the huge evolutions. If understanding the process of evaluation, it would be very help for systematically learning the Chinese character [1]

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