Tsumugu Encoding Dictionary

What it is

The public encoding dictionary for Tsumugu. 9,663 character and word entries plus 515 grammar patterns for students of Traditional Chinese. Entries open with form and functional structure, followed by stories, mnemonics, cross-referenced grammar, and in-language explanations and examples. The site is generated from the private tsumugu-ed content store (one JSON per entry) by tsumugu-ed/scripts/render_site.py.

Status

Deployed to custom domain 2026-06-15. Validation passes (unique IDs across entries and patterns; schema clean). Grammar catalog reduced to 303 functional points after reconciliation; walls and duplicate English labels addressed in the prior copy pass. Home and About front-facing copy finalized. The dictionary is the compounding public asset of the Tsumugu production line; the reader, wiki, and engine remain separate surfaces.

Links

• Project status dashboard: view the live build-out tracker — done / in-progress / not-started across every content lane (snapshot 2026-06-21).
• Live site: https://tsumugu-ed.com
• Main Tsumugu project (reader, wiki, engine): tsumugu
• Dictionary custody decision: 2026 06 11 tsumugu dictionary custody and display
• Grammar browse and site copy pass: 2026 06 15 tsumugu grammar browse and site copy

Story-card redesign (Modified Method of Loci)

• The Story-Card Catalog: the story card catalog — every way a single-character memory scene can be generated; 34 archetypes a future authoring agent selects from and extends.
• First principles: first principles of the story card — the residue rule and the two axes that generate the catalog.
• The pivot (memory scenes): story cards as memory scenes — why the Story card became a loci scene encoding only the Form’s residue.
• Decision record: 2026 06 29 tsumugu story card loci pivot and 2026 06 29 story card first principles.