Recombinant Chinese Pinyin system for efficient processing of information in Chinese

摘要

An enhanced Pinyin (Chinese phonetic symbol) coding system has been developed for creating a novel Romanized version of the Chinese language. The homophonic problem associated with inputting Chinese characters to computers has been solved by the addition of a suffix to the conventional Pinyin of individual Chinese characters as well as multisyllable words/phrases. The suffix for the Pinyin of a Chinese character comprises a combination of a tone symbol and a single letter index that is mostly designated as the first letter of an English word giving an appropriate translation. For multisyllable Chinese words, the suffix consists only of a single letter that indicates either the tone of the last Chinese character or the first letter of an English translation. The resulting set of Romanized Chinese notations, christened ‘Chinish', make it possible to input Chinese characters as efficiently as English words. It is proposed that Chinish be used as a replacement for the current Pinyin system as a standard interface between Chinese speaking users and computers.