Recombinant Chinese Pinyin system for efficient processing of information in Chinese

Abstract

An enhanced Pinyin (Chinese phonetic symbol) coding system has been developed for creating a novel Romanized version of the Chinese language. The homophonic problem associated with inputting Chinese characters to computers has been solved by the addition of a suffix to the conventional Pinyin of individual Chinese characters as well as multisyllable words/phrases. The suffix for the Pinyin of a Chinese character comprises a combination of a tone symbol and a single letter index that is mostly designated as the first letter of an English word giving an appropriate translation. For multisyllable Chinese words, the suffix consists only of a single letter that indicates either the tone of the last Chinese character or the first letter of an English translation. The resulting set of Romanized Chinese notations, christened `Chinish', make it possible to input Chinese characters as efficiently as English words. It is proposed that Chinish be used as a replacement for the current Pinyin system as a standard interface between Chinese speaking users and computers.