Cangjie
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Portrait of Cangjie | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 倉頡 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 仓颉 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Cāngjié | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Vietnamese alphabet | Thương Hiệt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chữ Hán | 倉頡 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hangul | 창힐 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hanja | 倉頡 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Kanji | 蒼頡 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cangjie is a legendary figure in Chinese mythology, 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 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.