Chinese Character Riddle

Chinese character riddles, a unique form of linguistic puzzle, challenge solvers to identify a single character based on a description of its visual form and sometimes its meaning or pronunciation. Current research focuses on creating large datasets of these riddles to benchmark the capabilities of natural language processing models, such as transformer-based architectures, in solving them. This work aims to advance our understanding of character recognition, semantic understanding, and the interplay between visual and linguistic information in Chinese, with potential applications in areas like language learning and cultural heritage preservation.