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Boshiamy (嘸蝦米, sometimes written as 無蝦米, a Mandarin approximation of Taiwanese phrase 無甚物 meaning "It's nothing!") is a Chinese character IME. It is invented by Liu Ch'ung-tz'u (劉重次). It uses several hundreads radicals represented by 26 letters to build characters; the number depends on how one considers two radicals to be the same or different. Radicals are mapped to letters by their shapes, sounds or meanings. Mandarin, or Guanhua (Traditional Chinese: 官話; Simplified Chinese: 官è¯; Hanyu Pinyin: ; literally official speech), or Beifanghua (Chinese: 北方方言; Hanyu Pinyin: ; literally Northern Dialect(s)) is a category of related Chinese dialects spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. ...
Taiwanese (Chinese: å°èªž, å°ç£è©±; Taiwanese peÌh-oÄ“-jÄ«: Tâi-oân-oÄ“; Hanyu Pinyin: TáiyÇ” or TáiwÄnhuà ) is a dialect of Min Nan spoken by about 70% of the Taiwanese population. ...
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An input method editor (IME) is a program or operating system component that allows computer users to enter complex characters and symbols (such as Japanese, Chinese, Tibetan and Korean characters), using a standard Western keyboard. ...
Boshiamy becomes one of the fastest input method by shortening codes of many characters. Its top speed exceeds 200 characters per minute in typing contest. Boshiamy is originally designed to input traditional Chinese characters, but now it also supports inputting simplified Chinese characters. Traditional Chinese characters are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ...
Simplified Chinese characters (Simplified Chinese: 简体字; Traditional Chinese: 簡體字; pinyin: jiǎntǐzì; also called 简化字/簡化字, jiǎnhuàzì) are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ...
Categories of radicals
Shapes Some radicals are mapped to letters with similar shapes. For example, some characters which entirely consists of these radicals are 哈 (OAO), 命 (AOP), and 印 (EP).
Sounds Some radicals are mapped to letters by their sounds. For example, the character 粉 is represented as MBD, which respectively correspond to the radicals 米 (mǐ), 八 (bā), and 刀 (dāo).
Also, some radicals are mapped to letter with English names similar to their pronunciations: 一 (yī) is E, 二 (èr) is R, 西 (xī) is C.
Meanings Some radicals are mapped to the first letters of their English meanings. For example, 木 (tree) is T, 車 (car) is C, 中 (center) is C.
Variants Some radicals look similar to other radicals, and are mapped to the same letter. For example, 史 is similar to 中, and is represented by C.
Others A few radicals are mapped to letters arbitrarily. For example, 才 is U, 與 is E, 土 is Y.
Rules Characters are decomposed basically in the so-called "eye order" (眼順), that is essentially from left to right, from top to bottom. Because of the numerous radicals available, decomposition is not difficult. For some words the order differs from stroke order; for example the dot of 戈 is written last, but is taken first in the code because it is at the top. Outline of the character æ°¸, showing stroke order and direction. ...
The first 3 and the last radical of a character are taken as its code. If there is less than 3 letters, a supplementary letter (補碼) is added according to the shape of the last stroke of character. For example, the codes of 中 and 史 are both C, so supplementary letter I and X are added respectively, making their codes CI and CX.
In case more than one word corresponds to the same code, an extra letter can be added for selection. For example, there are 3 words 玻, 玫 and 攷 for the code KPX. 玻 can be inputted directly with this code, 玫 can be inputted by appending V to the code, and 攷 by appending R. Boshiamy allows a maximum of 5 letters to be inputted at a time, so even for 4-letter code an extra letter can still be added. Characters can also be selected by number keys.
Boshiamy provides a special input mode for users to master these short codes. Users can only input a character by its shortest code, otherwise it shows the character and its shortest code.
Shortening of code To increase input speed, a number of most common characters are given 1- or 2-letter shorter codes. For example 的 (originally PDNA) is D, 對 (FEBA) is A, 會 (ADAV) is AD.
Additional "brevity radicals" (簡速字根) are made available for shortening the codes of more words. For example, the original code of 提 is JDEZ with the usual radicals, but using a brevity radical 是 (J) it is shorten to JJN (with supplementary letter N for the last stroke).
Other features Boshiamy supports Unicode. Zhuyin, Japanese kanjis and kanas and other special symbols can be inputted directly with Boshiamy. Users can add new codes for characters or phrases. Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ...
// Headline text u r all muppets n smelly twats Zhuyin Fuhao (Traditional Chinese: 注音符號; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chu-yin fu-hao), or Symbols for Annotating Sounds, often abbreviated as Zhuyin, or known as Bopomofo (ㄅㄆㄇㄈ) after the first four letters of this Chinese phonemic alphabet (bo po mo fo), is the...
Japanese writing Kanji æ¼¢å— Kana ä»®å Hiragana 平仮å Katakana 片仮å Uses Furigana 振り仮å Okurigana é€ã‚Šä»®å RÅmaji ãƒãƒ¼ãƒžå— Kanji ( ) are the Chinese characters (Hanzi) that are used in the modern Japanese logographic writing system along with hiragana (平仮å), katakana (片仮å) and the Roman alphabet. ...
Japanese writing Kanji æ¼¢å— Kana ä»®å Hiragana 平仮å Katakana 片仮å Uses Furigana 振り仮å Okurigana é€ã‚Šä»®å RÅmaji ãƒãƒ¼ãƒžå— For other meanings of Kana, see Kana (disambiguation). ...
See also Since the Chinese language uses a logographic script—that is a script where one or two character corresponds roughly to one word or meaning—there are vastly more characters, or glyphs, than there are keys on a standard computer keyboard. ...
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