Cangjie

Cangjie [tsʰáŋ.tɕjě] (Chinese: 倉頡) is a legendary ancient Chinese figure said to have been an official historian of the Yellow Emperor and the inventor of Chinese characters. Legend has it that he had four eyes, and that when he invented the characters, the deities and ghosts cried and the sky rained millet. He is considered a legendary rather than historical figure, or at least not considered to be the sole inventor of Chinese characters. Cangjie was the eponym for the (c. 220 BCE) Cangjiepian proto-dictionary, the Cangjie method of inputting characters into a computer, and a Martian rock visited by the Mars rover Spirit, and named by the rover team.

Cangjie
Portrait of Cangjie
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese倉頡
Simplified Chinese仓颉
Hanyu PinyinCāngjié
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabetThương Hiệt
Chữ Hán倉頡
Korean name
Hangul창힐
Hanja倉頡
Japanese name
Kanji蒼頡
Hiraganaそうけつ
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