Standard Lemma guide
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name
The legendary figure historically credited with the invention of the first writing system in China.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
An input method for entering Chinese characters into a computer, developed in 1976 and originally supporting only traditional Chinese. Characters are visually decomposed into parts; these parts are assigned keys on the keyboard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
The man is from Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 倉頡 /仓颉 (Cāngjié). The input method is then named after legendary inventor of the Chinese writing system, historian Cangjie, the forementioned person, coined by General of the Republic of China, adopted son of President Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Wei-kuo in 1979.
Across languages
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