Is there anybody using handwriting on the Japanese gboard?
Is there a setting somewhere to get word suggestions including kanji?
Example:
When I write はな in hiragana using the handwriting, I get:
So there are suggestions including kanji (like は右), but not the obvious 花.
When I type はな in the 12-key version of gboard, I get:
I don’t use GBoard but Samsung Keyboard and it’s quite similar. If I type はな, I get suggestions like 花 or 鼻. But if I handwrite it, I don’t get kanji suggestions. I guess they assume that if you can handwrite the kana, you also have the ability to handwrite the kanji.
That may be true for 木 or 日, but not for 鬱.
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Now I see that the few kanji suggestions I get in the first example are resembling a handwritten な. Apparently the gboard SW was not sure that this was hiragana and suspected it might be a 右.
I switch the input method from handwriting to flick when I want to input kana and get suggestions. However, I only use the handwritten input when I need to lookup a kanji which I don’t know how to read. So for my actual Japanese writing needs I use the flick keyboard as it’s much faster (and I can only write like 100 kanji).
Just out of curiosity, what is your use case?
so you draw the kanji in this case? I am never fast enough to draw a kanji in gboard (except for the very basic ones).
I have used the handwriting input because I wanted to practice hiragana handwriting. It worked well for Flaming Dirtles or dictionary lookups, but it doesn’t work for example for a word search in bookwalker - I suppose you have to give them the same format as in the book.
Another advantage is that I can enter hiragana and english text without switching keyboards.
Haha, sounds so familiar 
I became fast enough now because I know how to write most of the radicals. But it took me a year I guess.
Until then I used an older Google Handwriting keyboard. You could set the delay to infinite and take as much time as you want. Sadly, it’s now deprecated in favour of Gboard.
There is such a setting in gboard, too (settings - general management - Gboard settings - Languages - Japanese handwriting - handwriting speed). However I don’t know if “very slow” is “infinitely slow”.
I’m afraid it’s not. I set it to minimal speed and tried to draw 星. With even a slight interval between the drawing of 日 and 生, gboard assumes that I want to write 日. No way to add other radicals afterwards.
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