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Learn characters more efficiently with this revolutionary, easy-to-use dictionary. Discover how Chinese characters actually work!

Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters

Learn characters more efficiently with this revolutionary, easy-to-use dictionary. Discover how Chinese characters actually work!
Learn characters more efficiently with this revolutionary, easy-to-use dictionary. Discover how Chinese characters actually work!
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Outlier Linguistic Solutions
Outlier Linguistic Solutions
1,461 backers pledged $91,474 to help bring this project to life.
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Details about the Dictionary Release

Good News and Bad News

The posters are finally finished as of a few months ago. That’s not really news, but we are proud of our work. We’ve sent out... Read more

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Delay Announcement

Hi,

As you may have guessed, the dictionary release will be delayed. There's a very good reason for that, but I'm going to have to ask everyone to bear with... Read more

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All English posters have been released!

Hi,

We've sent out all the posters in English—both Simplified and Traditional.

One of our backers pointed out that some people may not be able to receive emails with large... Read more

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Happy Lunar New Year + Posters!

猴年大吉！

Hi all, and happy Lunar New Year!

It's the Year of the Monkey—Monkeys are said to be clever and intelligent, especially in their careers and finances. We hope for... Read more

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Ready to start sending out posters!

Happy New Year, everyone!

We're finally ready to start sending out the PDF posters! We'll start next week with the English Simplified posters, and after that we'll send the others... Read more

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Upgrading + Posters

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Poster Update

The poster is taking us longer than we thought to finish. Each draft, we've found a few things that need to be changed, features to add, tweaks to make. I... Read more

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Posters + recent news!

Hi!

Hopefully everything is going well for all of you. Things are certainly busy here at Outlier.

Recent News

Some of you may have seen this (and some of you... Read more

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RISE Conference in Hong Kong

We're thrilled to announce that we'll have a booth at the RISE Conference in Hong Kong!

The conference will be held from July 31-August 1 at the Hong Kong Convention... Read more

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Chinese character conference in Beijing

Ash went to Beijing earlier this month to present a paper at the Second International Symposium on the Culture of Chinese Characters and Language (第2屆國際漢字漢語文化研討會) at Beijing Normal University (北師大). While he... Read more

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Store Clarification

Hi all,

It seems there is some confusion about our online store. If you've reserved a copy of any of our products via Kickstarter, you do NOT need to order... Read more

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Store Launched!

Our online store is up and running! You can pre-order copies of the dictionary and PDFs of the poster now, and we'll have the workbook and printed posters available for... Read more

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Success!

 We did it! We're actually still waiting for confirmation on the final amount. There was a glitch on Kickstarter in the last hour that caused the amount displayed to drop... Read more

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Successfully raised $91,475 USD with 1,461 backers

One day more! Plus, THE WORKBOOK!!

What a great month this has been! You, our backers, have been truly amazing and we're so grateful for all the support and feedback we've gotten from you!

We're now... Read more

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We made it!! Crossed the $75k mark a few hours ago!!

Thank you everyone for your support! This campaign has been quite the roller coaster ride. Now, we'll have to turn our attention to making an excellent dictionary. Thanks again for... Read more

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80% + Featured on TechCrunch!

We've hit 80% of our goal! Wow! But with just a week and over $13,000 left to go, nothing's for sure yet!

Catherine Shu at TechCrunch did a great piece about... Read more

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Over 2/3 there!

Hi!

We're at nearly 70% of our goal and we have just under 10 days left. Things are looking good. But we're not there yet!

Now's the time, if you... Read more

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New video series!

We've started a series of videos that help to explain our system of understanding Chinese characters. The first two videos are up, and we'll have a few more ready soon.... Read more

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New product + Stretch Goal + New rewards!

Well, we've reached the midway point and we're 57% of the way to our goal, so things are looking good! It's time to announce another product, a stretch goal, and... Read more

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Over halfway!

The past two days have been amazing! We've gone from 31% to nearly 55% since yesterday morning!

Taipei time, that is. :)

The $99 Sponsor An Entry reward is all... Read more

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Over 40%! Wow!

Things are really pickup up! Thanks so much for all your support! You guys rock, and it's been really fun getting to know you so far!

For those of you... Read more

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Staff Pick + Featured on Mashable!

Josh Horwitz's article for Tech in Asia has now been featured on Mashable! Looks like the word is really starting to spread! Thanks to everyone who has helped us get... Read more

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Featured in Tech in Asia!

Sorry to post two updates in one day, but this is really exciting news: We've been featured in Tech in Asia!

Outlier Linguistics is teaching what most Chinese courses don’t... Read more

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Review from John Pasden

John Pasden wrote a really great blog post about our dictionary project today. You may know John as the author of the excellent Sinosplice website and blog, or as founder of... Read more

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$10,000!

Check out what you guys have helped us do — we've just passed the $10,000 mark!

Thanks so much for your support! Let's "Keep On Pushing" the word out there!... Read more

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We've reached 10% of our goal!

Thank you all so much for your support and feedback! We're so grateful for everything you've done so far! This project wouldn't be possible without you guys.

Keep helping us spread... Read more

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Page/video update

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We had a great first day!

Thank you so much to everyone for making our first day so great! We've already hit over 5% of our funding goal in just 24 hours! Wow!

If you haven't... Read more

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