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Posts tagged Place Names from the Hanzi Write Practice team.

Ink-wash scene of a sage on a cliff with calligraphy 行稳致远 (steady steps reach far), illustrating manual versus automated mapping of place names
Essays

Manual vs Automated Mapping: Who Learns the Place Names?

When an app maps a place name for you, it learns it, not you. Mapping it yourself, by writing the characters from memory, is what puts the territory in your own head. Here is the difference.

Lawrence Arya··5 min
Ink-wash scene of a sage on a cliff with calligraphy 行稳致远 (steady steps reach far), illustrating learning the characters on your local map and signs
Playbooks

Learning the Characters on Your Local Map and Signs

An app won't reliably translate a physical map on the spot, but your local geography is a small fixed set: district, metro stops, streets. Learn those characters and the map stops being foreign.

Lawrence Arya··5 min