The Chinese language has 85,568 hieroglyphs. Imagine what a keyboard would look like with this character set. The Chinese use SMS messages to communicate with each other on a daily basis. To communicate, the Chinese use numbers instead of symbols in SMS.
Instructions
Step 1
For an ordinary Chinese, 4000 characters are enough for communication. Some linguistics professor knows about 8,000-10,000 hieroglyphs.
In gadgets and other mobile devices, there are special applications in the keyboard layout and input tools that make it easier to enter characters when communicating. In Chinese phones there are applications that allow you to enter Chinese characters by transliteration through similar words in English, which can be selected in a special menu. Models of devices with a touch screen provide the ability to draw the required hieroglyph with a finger. In the menu that appears, the help program will offer you to choose the appropriate option.
Step 2
In the Chinese language, besides the traditional one, there is a slang language. Every language in the world has its own expressions and slang. But the Chinese language is somewhat different, in it, along with the traditional and simplified languages, there is also a language of numbers. The Chinese communicate with each other using numbers. From several numbers, they are able to make up whole semantic expressions. For example, 521 would mean "I love you." In Chinese, words and numbers sound the same.
The most common set of numbers is "88". In Chinese, the number "8" is pronounced as "ba" (ba). The Chinese, when they write "88" in SMS, they mean "bye" (English bye bye - sounds like "bye-bye").
Step 3
At first glance, it may seem that only Chinese youth are playing such a game. Not at all. Business representatives, including advertisers and marketers, realized that this way they can attract an audience. McDonald's uses the telephone number 4008-517-517 to order food, where the last combination of numbers is pronounced in Chinese as "wo yao chi", which means "I am hungry." You can also find a sign near the bar like "519", which the Chinese will read as "I want to drink."
Step 4
As soon as various devices and computers appeared in China, an intelligent character input system was immediately developed.
The system works as follows: it offers to choose a word or a ready-made sentence, which are widespread. Several dozen hieroglyphs have approximately the same sound. For example, in the Chinese pinyin language (this is when, instead of Chinese characters, the word is written in Latin letters, similar in sound), the word "I" is written as "wo".
With this system, difficulties are only in the first stages. Further, the intelligent program independently changes one character to another.
