Biaoxingma method
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The Biaoxingma Input Method (simplified Chinese:
Biaoxingma was pre-installed by Microsoft in Chinese Windows 95 and Windows 98 first edition,[2][3] but was removed from Windows 98 second edition and later Windows versions.
Biaoxingma was also installed in IBM AIX.[4]
Basics
[edit]The smallest constituent parts of each Chinese character are called strokes. One or more strokes form the components of a character. Characters are divided into several components, which are coded to the English letter resembling them. Due to the resemblance of the letter and the character components it refer to, Biaoxingma is easy to learn and remember compared with Wubi method and Zhengma method. Moreover, the biggest advantage of Biaoxingma is that crossed strokes are never divided into two components. In other words, the character components never cross each other. This makes the way of splitting characters very intuitive.
Here are two examples:
- "
吼 " - divided into - O+Z+L = OZL - "啊" - divided into - O+P+T+O = OPTO
References
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表 形 码侵权案宣 判 一 审7年 拖垮一 公司 " (in Chinese). Jan 16, 2001. - ^
高 毓乾 (1996). ""表 形 码"脱 颖而出 预装入 中 文 WINDOWS95中 ".微 型 电脑应用 (3). - ^ "
表 形 码为何 能 脱 颖而出 ?——国家 火 炬计划项目 和国 家信 标委有 关负责人答 记者问".天津 科技 (3). 1996. - ^ AIX 5L Differences Guide Version 5.2 Edition (PDF). p. 786.[permanent dead link]