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Chinese characters go alphabetic
Updated: 2017-07-06
By Sun Hui, chinadaily.com.cn
A connection between Chinese characters and the Latin alphabet is currently under construction with the hope?that foreigners can?learn Chinese characters structure easier.
The news came from a Chinese learning program utilizing Chinese character structures, an alphabetic teaching system and the Gao Character Alphabetic Code System released in Chongqing on June 29.
Lin Gang, Party secretary of the Art and Communication School of Beijing Technology and Business University, presented the teaching system of the program. The Chinese character "善" with 12 strokes can be transferred into an alphabetic form of "KHKO" or "OKHK" through the program.
Gao Xiaoming, founder of Chongqing Zizhao Education Technology Co Ltd, created the innovative learning system, allowing learners familiar with the Latin alphabet can learn to recognize and write Chinese characters quicklier and easilier.
"The program has successfully represented 8,105 Chinese characters with the Latin alphabet and developed a Chinese input method for international Chinese language education which is faster compared to normal pinyin," Gao Xiaoming introduced.
Gao added, "Once the system translates all Chinese characters, foreign learners can find a new way to rapidly recognize, read and write Chinese characters and type in characters on computer with the new input method."
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The traditional learning method of the Chinese character "善" versus that of the alphabetic learning system. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] |
Gao said the program research was inspired by the highly similar structures and meanings between Chinese characters and the Latin alphabet.
The research revealed that the form and structure of Chinese characters have both pictographic meaning and an alphabetic structure, overturning the inherent theory of Chinese character formations.
Zizhao owns all the independent intellectual property rights of the program, which has won two national invention patents and 35 copyrights.
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Chinese characters show large similarities between oracles and other alphabets. [Photo/Xinhua] |
Cao Baoping, a professor of Chinese language at Sichuan International Studies University, said that research on the alphabetic form of Chinese characters has unveiled the original wisdom of Chinese characters, and explores a transformative bridge between Chinese and western languages.
The program has developed various Chinese language teaching tools, including professional guide books, tenon and mortise structure models and colorful character systems.
Chongqing Zizhao Education Technology Co Ltd also signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Chongqing ARTOP Dynamics by AG Technology Co Ltd to further develop the program.
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Chongqing Zizhao Education Technology Co Ltd signs a strategic cooperation agreement with Chongqing ARTOP Dynamics by AG Technology Co Ltd for the program's further development. [Photo/Xinhua] |
Edited by Zachary Dye
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