It always amazes me how good Gboard is at figuring out long single-"stroke" hanzi/kanji scrawls if you have the right stroke order

> It is like written by someone really drunk though...

Try approximating a 草書 form.

One problem with using this to draw 字 is the lack of vertical strata. Just look at the character 子: it has five distinct vertical positions. (Initial topbar, bottom of the hook down from the topbar, bottom of the vertical stroke, top of the hook up from the vertical stroke, and the crossbar.) But QWANJI has only three distinct vertical levels.

I've seen a font where 女 (actually, the 女字旁) is represented as a symmetrical form, kind of like if the 点 in the top center of 义 were replaced by a 横 going through the other two strokes. That reduces the count of vertical coordinates from 5 to 4. I imagine adapting characters to QWANJI would take quite a lot of that kind of thing.

> One problem with using this to draw 字 is the lack of vertical strata.

Totally agree. Adding the number row on the keyboard should be helpful but make QWANJI less like a language.

Yeah the "drunk script" look is to avoid straight lines hiding multiple paths. Cool that it's recognisable though!