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Japanese
Japanese , language of uncertain origin that is spoken by more than 125 million people, most of whom live in Japan. There are also many speakers of Japanese in the Ryukyu Islands, Korea, Taiwan, parts of the United States, and Brazil. Japanese appears to be unrelated to any other language; however, ... Read more
Pinyin
Pinyin [Chin. pinyin zimu  = phonetic alphabet], system of romanization of Chinese written characters, approved in 1958 by the government of the People's Republic of China and officially adopted by it in 1979. Its use replaces that of the more complex Wade-Giles system (1859; modifie... Read more
James Y. C. Yen
James Y. C. Yen , Mandarin Yen Yang-chu, 1893-1990, Chinese educator, b. Sichuan prov., China, educated at Yale (B.A., 1918) and Princeton (M.A., 1920) universities. Yen devised a simplified form of Chinese writing consisting of 1,000 characters and suitable for instructing adult illiterates. He... Read more
alphanumeric
alphanumeric or alphameric , the set of letters and numbers. When used in reference to computer input and output, the set usually is expanded to include the upper- and lower-case alphabetic characters (A-Z, a-z), the numeric characters (0-9), and special characters (such as the symbols $, #, a... Read more
Asian drama
Asian drama dramatic works produced in the East. Of the three major Asian dramas—Sanskrit, Chinese, Japanese—the oldest is Sanskrit, although the dates of its origin are uncertain. See also Sanskrit literature ; Chinese literature ; Japanese literature ; and drama, Western . ... Read more
Unicode
Unicode , set of codes used to represent letters, numbers, control characters, and the like, designed for use internationally in computers . It has been expanded to include such items as scientific, mathematical, and technical symbols, and even musical notation. The Unicode standard defines codes f... Read more
alphabet
alphabet [Gr. alpha-beta, like Eng. ABC], system of writing , theoretically having a one-for-one relation between character (or letter) and phoneme (see phonetics ). Few alphabets have achieved the ideal exactness. A system of writing is called a syllabary when one character represents a syllab... Read more
block book
block book Before and after the invention of printing from movable types in the mid-15th cent., some books were printed in Europe from engraved wooden blocks, with one block for each page. This method was developed by the 9th cent. AD in China. The practice has a richer history in the East than in ... Read more
mah jongg
mah jongg , four-handed game, probably of Chinese origin, popular in the United States. It is played in many variations throughout China. In 1920, Joseph P. Babcock, an American traveler in China, devised a set of rules for Western play and invented a complete terminology. He patented the game under... Read more
writing
writing the visible recording of language peculiar to the human species. Writing enables the transmission of ideas over vast distances of time and space and is a prerequisite of complex civilization. Where, and by whom writing was first developed remains unknown, but scholars place the beginning ... Read more

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Effects of minimal legible size characters on Chinese word recognition
Magazine article from: Visible Language; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...characteristics of the elements within a character, in particular, those affecting...similar. However, written Chinese characters are square-shaped...indicated that the effect of stroke number on Chinese character recognition was statistically...
Breakthrough in Chinese handwriting recognition announced by Motorola's Lexicus Division at COMDEX; technology may revolutionize Asian personal computer market.
Business Wire; 11/13/1995; 700+ words ; ...Children learn a set stroke sequence for each character, but there are variations in adults' stroke order. The concept of "cursive" writing in Chinese characters exists...English and other roman character languages, where letters...
Optimay Licenses T9 Text Input From Tegic Communications for Chinese-enabled GSM Phones; De Facto Standard for Text Input Will Enhance GSM Handsets.
Business Wire; 8/23/1999; 700+ words ; ...user's strokes and stroke order. Phonetic Pinyin...efforts have resulted in a Chinese stroke-based input system...identify the desired character after only 1.8 strokes...character. In addition to Chinese, T9 Text Input is also...
NEC Corp. to License T9 Text Input Software for Integration in Wireless Handsets; Quick and Easy Text Entry To Be Available First In New Chinese GSM Handset.
Business Wire; 6/11/1999; 700+ words ; ...supports Simplified and Traditional stroke-based Chinese, as well as phonetic Pinyin and...first Western company to receive stroke-order certification from the Chinese State Language and Character Commission. "We are excited to...
XOCECO HANDSETS ADOPTING CKE TECHNOLOGY
News Wire article from: AsiaInfo Services; 11/16/1999; 248 words ; ...Company decided to apply the CKE Chinese Character Input Method in the all Chinese duel-frequency multimedia mobile phone...will be released late this year. CKE (Stroke Chinese Character Input method), invented by Professor Wang...
Zi Corporation Announces Agreement With Arm.
Business Wire; 9/29/1997; 700+ words ; ...potential licensees and their OEM customers. Zi 8 Input is a stroke-based, intuitive Chinese character input system that follows the same stroke order that people learn in school to write Chinese characters. The Zi Input technology can provide an OEM...
USPTO Issues Trademark BOUTIQUE ACUPUNCTURE to Boutique Acupuncture for Acupuncture
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/22/2009; 451 words ; ...Boutique". The stylized Chinese character, which translates in English...English letter "A". The Chinese character is approximately four times...Acupuncture". The upward stroke of the Chinese character dissects the word "Boutique...
Motorola, Lexicus Division Licenses Chinese Handwriting Recognition.
Business Wire; 8/1/1996; 700+ words ; ...Children learn a set stroke sequence for each character but there are variations in adult's stroke order. The concept of "cursive" writing in Chinese characters exists...English and other roman character languages, where letters...
Chinese Inventors Develop Character Recognition Method
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 2/6/2007; 548 words ; ...have developed a method for character recognition based on gabor...Office: "In a method for character recognition based on Gabor...employed to extract, from the character image, information of the stroke direction of characters as...
Monotype Imaging Releases iType Font Engine 3.0; New Version Enables High-Quality Display of Small East Asian Characters on Cell Phones.
Business Wire; 9/18/2006; 700+ words ; ...characters. The iType 3.0 release also supports a SmartHint-enabled Simplified Chinese stroke font based on the GB18030 Chinese character set standard. A Japanese stroke font based on SmartHint