Patent Document ID: 5410306
Application ID: 08141645

Base Claim:
1. An encoding system for an ideographic language, which consists a set of ideographic symbols or ideograms, comprising: means for representing the pronunciations of the ideograms as said encoding system's pronunciation component; means for representing different tones of the pronunciations as said encoding system's tone component; means for representing graphical patterns of the ideogram as said encoding system's radical components; and means for representing a stroke or strokes of the ideogram as a candidate feature of said encoding system's supplemental component; wherein said ideogram or a plurality of ideograms are represented as an alphanumerical string not containing any blank, where said alphanumerical string contains a string pattern or a plurality of string patterns, where each of the string patterns is a string of alphabets followed by a numeral or a plurality of numerals, where the number of numerals indicates the number of ideograms represented by said alphanumerical string.

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Claim 6:
6. The encoding system of claim 1, wherein the supplemental component are defined by one of the characteristics of the ideograms which is not duplicated in other components of said encoding system and represented by numerals.