Living Jiagu is an interactive, wall-sized exhibition for the engaging learning of Chinese writing. Living Jiagu leverages state-of-the-art machine learning technologies to facilitate the recognition and recall of Chinese characters via constructive etymology in context - i.e., learning the writing and meaning of pictographic characters by designing them from image prompts similar to the creators of Oracle Bone Script (OBS) 3000 years ago and experiencing how these characters function and interact in natural scenes. An installation of Living Jiagu received positive feedback from over one thousand users.

Modern-day Chinese characters, or Hanzi, originate from the ancient oracle-bone scripts ((sic)). Such etymological relationship creates unique opportunities for Hanzi learning. This work proposes to use Web-based tools and the latest machine learning techniques to scale-up and enhance etymological Hanzi learning. By sharing our implementation details from launching an interactive sketch-based learning exhibition, we hope education-AI becomes more widely incorporated into today's commercial Web applications. Our demo video can be found at: https://youtube/1met8Uk5pA0