Character Compounds Section Definitions

[garrisonlc]

I ran into this issue a couple of times. My exact example currently is that I saw the character 蓬 in a video subtitle, but it passed quickly so I searched the character I knew was similar in 缝纫. I went to the components of 缝 to find 逢.

Then was looking at the compounds section to find what 蓬 means. The definition shown on these compounds is the UNI dictionary definition which seems to be inaccurate compared to PLC and CC. It showed that 蓬 meant "type of raspberry; fairyland' and this definition made no sense for the video I was watching (a hair tutorial) so I had to go back in the video and had to draw and search 蓬 directly in order to get the correct definition of "fluffy; disheveled".

And the weird thing is that neither CC or PLC had any definition even relatively close to the UNI definition. PLC defs: fleabane, fluffly;dishevelled, MW [for twiggy, leafy plants]. CC defs: fleabane, disheveled, classifier for luxuriant plants.
I attempted to turn off every section of the UNI dictionary in settings, but it is still the definition shown in the Compounds section even when I have the other 2 dictionaries turned on for the Compounds section. I'm not sure why this UNI dictionary is so different but how can I remove it? It makes it hard to naturally connect characters together when an obscure definition is given.

 

[mikelove]

We force UNI in that screen at the moment because it's the only dictionary we have with short - top few meanings only - definitions that are purely related to the character, i.e., they cover every pronunciation or opposite-character-set variant and yet are short enough to work in that screen. But doing a clean-up / check of UNI against our other dictionaries is on our to-do list, I'll add this item to our bug list for it.

As far as having the option for other dictionaries there, I think we were planning to support that as an option in our upcoming 4.0 update so I'll double check if that made it in successfully. (I would not actually encourage doing that, though, since having 27 different meanings for a character listed is likely to be an equally big problem for understanding characters through their breakdowns)