I had a problem adding words to custom lists a while back; the problem went away and has now returned.

1. Add the phrase 阿狗阿猫|Any Tom, Dick or Harry
2. Click "Validate Words"
3. Get the box prompting for Pinyin (why, I'm not sure; all those characters are already in the system)
4. Fill in the Pinyin a1 gou3 a1 mao1
5. Click "Add" (I forget the name of the button)

At this point I see "Submitting", and it never finishes.

James

I had the same problem with 日全食 today. All the other words I was adding validated fine.

I just fixed the bug locally. You should be able to create new words in Chinese again. It was a bug I introduced when we shuffled everything around to support Japanese, sorry about that!

As for the pinyin box, the pinyins for the character are actually kind of hidden as a tooltip with the nciku link in the upper left hand corner. We'll move it so that it's shown under the box you're inputting, but not in the box itself. We don't want to pre-fill the data so that we're more likely to get the benefit of anyone's best efforts on spacing, capitalization, or selection of different pinyin choices. Know though that if it's part of the data you validate, it will try to parse it and put it in the box for you. So if you put instead:

阿狗阿猫|a1gou3a1mao1|Any Tom, Dick or Harry

The pinyin will already be in there.

Fixed, thanks!