Wubi input method
Método de entrada Wubi
- Date
- 1983 · confidence high
- Place
- Nanyang, Henan, China
- Credited to
- Wang Yongmin
- People
- 👤 Wang Yongmin1943–
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A method for typing Chinese characters by breaking them into graphic components assigned to 25 keys, with a maximum of four keystrokes per character. It made computing in Chinese viable before predictive phonetic methods.
What it led to
- professional Chinese typing
- computerisation of the Chinese administration