randall_flagg Posted June 14, 2006 at 03:43 PM Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 at 03:43 PM So, I was wondering: is there a concept of even and uneven numbers in Chinese? And, how did the Chinese use the Morse Code before the dawn of pinyin (and how are they using it now)? Thanks, Randall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skylee Posted June 14, 2006 at 03:51 PM Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 at 03:51 PM even number - 雙數/偶數 odd number - 單數/奇數 Re Morse Code, if you have seen the HK film "Infernal Affairs", you would know that here (HK) we use it to communicate in English. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinesetools Posted June 14, 2006 at 04:02 PM Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 at 04:02 PM Chinese telegraph operators used 4 digit sequences to represent characters. For example, to send the character for jade, you'd send 3768. After simplified characters were introduced, the PRC used a modified version of these codes. This would allow 10,000 characters to represented, enough for most uses (more than is in GB2312). It's just like how computers now use encodings to represent characters. You can look up these codes in the Unihan database at unicode.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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