On a phonetic and structural encoding of Chinese characters in Chinese texts

On a phonetic and structural encoding of Chinese characters in Chinese texts A phonetic and structural encoding of Chinese characters is proposed for representing Chinese texts on any con1puter, using universally available characters (all contained in the PL/I character set), in a readable, yet unan1biguous way. More than 80% of the 14 872 characters of the CHIAI(辭海) dictionary are unambiguously represented with 'simple' PS encoding. 'Iterated' PS encoding is designed to disambiguate the con1plete collection of Chinese characters since ancient times (≈67 000). 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 the Chinese characters. It may be adapted to the encoding Chinese characters in Japanese and Korean texts.