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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Writing Systems Articles Needing Expert Attention, Four Corner Method, Proto-Sinaitic Alphabet, Tironian Notes, Official Script, Tai le Script, Iso 15924: armi. Excerpt: The Four Corner Method (literal translation) (simplified Chinese: traditional Chinese: pinyin: s¬ jio ho m jin z¬ f) is a character input method used for encoding Chinese characters into either a computer or a manual typewriter, using four numerical digits per character. The Four Corner Method is also known as the Four Corner System. The Four Corner Method was invented in the 1920s by Wang Yunwu (), the editor in chief at Commercial Press Ltd., China. Its development was based mainly on contributions by the Russian scholar Otto Rosenberg in the early 20th century, as well as experiments by Lin Yutang and others. Its original purpose was to aid telegraphers in looking up Chinese telegraph code (CST) numbers in use at that time from long lists of characters. This was mentioned by Wang Yunwu in an introductory pamphlet called Sijiaohaoma Jianzifa in 1926. Introductory essays for this pamphlet were written by Cai Yuanpei and Hu Shi. Hu Shi also composed the following poem Bihuahaoma Ge as a "memory key" to the system: In the 1950s, lexicographers in the People's Republic of China changed the poem somewhat in order to avoid association with Hu Shi (see the new version, with characters, below). For various reasons, his name was "unmentionable" at the time this was composed. The four digits used to encode each character are chosen according to the "shape" of the four corners of each character, i.e. the upper left, upper right, lower left and lower right corners. The shapes can be memorized using a Chinese poem; this version, from the 1958 Xin Sijiaohaoma Cidian, is reworded to ... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=332112


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  • ISBN-13: 9781157951650
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 32
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 59 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1157951651
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jun 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Writing Systems Articles Needing Expert Attention, Four Corner Method, Proto-Sinaitic Alphabet, Tironian Notes
  • Width: 229 mm


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