Applications
Many researchers have discussed ways to decompose Chinese characters into their major components, and have tried to build applications based on the decomposition system. The idea can be referred as the study of The Genes of Chinese Characters . Cangjie codes certainly offer a basis for such an endeavour. Sinica Academia in Taiwan and Jiaotung University in Shanghai have similar projects as well.
One direct application of the use of decomposed characters is the possibility of computing the similarities in writing Chinese characters, e.g., . The Cangjie input method offers a good starting point for this kind of application. By relaxing the limit of five codes for each Chinese character and adopting more detailed Cangjie codes for each character, we can compute visually similar characters. Integrating this with pronunciation information enables computer-assisted learning of Chinese characters. .
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