Phonetic and Structural Encoding of Chinese Characters in Chinese Texts

摘要

Phonic and Structural (PS) encoding of Chinese characters is proposed forrepresenting Chinese texts on any computer, using universally available characters (all contained in the PL/I character set), in a readable, yet unambiguous way. More than 80 percent of the 14,872 characters of the CIHAI dictionary are unambiguously represented with simple PS encoding. Iterated PS encoding is designed to help make clear the complete collection of Chinese characters since ancient times. PS encoding is geared more toward exchange and processing than storage. Easy to construct with a standard dictionary and a table of keys, this scheme might also be used by non experts to input Chinese texts while learning Chinese characters. It may be adapted to the encoding of Chinese characters in Japanese and Korean texts.