Wubi input method was born in 1983. It was invented by a Mr. Wang Yongmin. It is an input method based on the periodic table of Chinese character roots. Its full name is Wangma Wubi font. Its emergence effectively solves the problem of Chinese character input in the information age. The problem of law.
Wubi is currently one of the most commonly used Chinese character input methods in China and some Southeast Asian countries, such as Singapore , Malaysia and other countries.
Wubi has the characteristics of low code repetition rate compared to the Pinyin input method. Once you are proficient, you can input Chinese characters quickly. The Wubi font has been launched in three versions: 86 Wubi, 98 Wubi and New Century Wubi.
The advantages of the Wubi input method are that typing is like writing. A skilled person can achieve eye-hand speed at the same time. This speed is almost the fastest and most accurate among all input methods. In addition, it can exercise the brain. You can think of Wubi as Chinese character building blocks. In the game, Wubi Chinese language proficiency is bound to improve step by step. To change a child's typo habit, let him copy fifty times. It is better to let him type with Wubi fifty times. It saves time and is more effective. Typing with Wubi is equivalent to hiring a teacher. Free Chinese teacher.
I personally believe that the Wubi input method commonly used by the elderly can reduce the occurrence of Alzheimer's disease!
China What is free? Air, sunshine and Wubi input method, here I would like to pay tribute to Mr. Wang Yongmin who has made great contributions to the Chinese information age.
However, with the development of the times, more and more input methods have become available. Among them, the Pinyin input method is a powerful rival of the Wubi input method! At the end of the 20th century, intelligent pinyin became popular, causing a sharp decline in the number of people using Wubi!
Chinese Pinyin is one of the core contents of China's enlightenment education. Anyone who has received Chinese education is familiar with Chinese Pinyin. For those who have just come into contact with computers, as long as they know Chinese Pinyin, they can type using the Pinyin input method, so Pinyin Input methods have become the first choice for more and more people to input Chinese characters.
With the gradual improvement and improvement of Pinyin input method, its new functions and features have attracted the attention of more and more users. The essential functions of Pinyin input method can be summarized into the following 10 items.
01 vocabulary library function: A good input method should find ways to facilitate users to manage their own personal vocabulary, modify settings, back up data, and be compatible with the import and export of other input method vocabulary libraries.
02 Intelligent combination of words and sentences: For words or phrases that are not in the thesaurus, the input method should be able to search for related words and phrases to help form the words or phrases that the user needs, which can greatly reduce the number of word selections. For example: when inputting "Beiming", the candidate window of the input method will automatically display words and phrases such as "Beiming Magic", "There is a fish in Beiming, and its name is Kun" for the user to make reference choices.
03 Fuzzy tone setting: my country has 56 ethnic groups, and the dialects in each region vary greatly. The Pinyin input method setting supports the fuzzy tone function, which can support fuzzy input of warped/flat tongue sounds, first/back nasal sounds, and southern accents, allowing users to freely Flexible customization and user-friendly.
04 Simplified Pin and Shuang Pin functions: Simplified Pin and Shuang Pin can improve input efficiency. The so-called Simplified Pin is the incomplete input of Pinyin, and the so-called Shuang Pin refers to the phonetic and rhyme double pin, that is, inputting initial consonants plus finals, each with one key for initial consonants and finals. The dual function includes many details.
05 Stroke auxiliary input: For some rare words, users may not know their pinyin. In this case, users can try to use the stroke auxiliary input function.
06 intelligently adjusts word frequency and word order: Pinyin input method can dynamically adjust the priority order of Chinese characters based on the user's previous input, helping users form words faster and more accurately. In addition, the dynamic word frequency adjustment function of the Pinyin input method can be set according to individual specific requirements.
07 intelligent error correction: such as mioa, corrected to miao, etc. Humanized error correction function greatly improves spelling speed.
08 Customized phrases: such as customization of Chinese words and phrases, punctuation marks, email addresses, serial numbers and email signatures, etc.
09 custom skin: It comes with a variety of skins for users to choose from and can provide online skin downloads. Users can also modify or create skins according to personal preferences.
10 automatic upgrade: the vocabulary library can keep pace with the Internet. The automatic upgrade of the vocabulary library can catch all popular Internet vocabulary and massive new Internet words and automatically add them to the user vocabulary library.
Mr. Wang Yongmin, who felt the crisis, once made a targeted statement: "Pinyin input - the gravedigger of Chinese character culture."
He believes that inputting Chinese characters in Pinyin on computers and mobile phones is actually a Use "Pinyin instead of Chinese characters". If things go on like this, more and more people will inevitably forget to write or even cannot write, resulting in more and more typos in newspapers, books, and TV screens.
He believes that the root cause of this serious crisis is that people regard "Pinyin letters" as the carrier of thinking and writing, while the soul of Chinese characters, namely the strokes and structure, has transformed into the "second layer of clothing" of Chinese characters and has become "Pinyin alphabet" clothes, this kind of changing of subject and object, putting the cart before the horse, is a self-alienation of Chinese characters and an automatic castration of Chinese character culture!
I have to say here that in fact, around 1980, that is, before the five-stroke font was invented, many people once concluded that computers are the gravediggers of Chinese character culture. Both this and Mr. Wang Yongmin’s remarks convey the life-and-death issues facing Chinese characters today.
However, in the history of human civilization, Chinese characters, a text symbol with a long history and full of magical charm, encountered not only one or two impacts in the civilized world, but various and multiple impacts. But what happened in the end? Like? You haven't survived well yet! Therefore, I personally think that survival of the fittest does not need to be too unreasonable.
From the comparison in the picture, it can be seen that the Wubi input method has a relatively low number of repeated codes and a low repeated code rate. Its speed is also its advantage. Unfortunately, it is not easy to learn and the memory capacity is much larger than that of the Pinyin input method. The popularity of
input methods also varies by generation. For example, my cousin is born in the 1980s, and she likes to use the Wubi input method, and she is not used to using other input methods. However, I am born in the 90s, and I like to use the Pinyin input method and the voice input method. Ask me why I like to use it, it’s just simple , easy to learn , easy to use!
People who are accustomed to the Pinyin input method cannot learn the Wubi input method. Wubi is about piecing together fonts. As long as you have seen it, you can neither read nor write. If you want to type quickly, you must forget the Pinyin input method. But it is just an input method. It exists to facilitate people's life and work. I believe that for most people, knowing an input method is enough.
So, why is Wubi now losing to Pinyin input? My conclusion is, what are people pursuing today? Isn’t it just about pursuing convenience? Those tedious and complicated things in history will be eliminated. We have to admit that it is human laziness that is driving the development of the world!
