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Glossary
A bilingual glossary of the key terms used throughout this tutorial. Chinese characters are kept alongside their English equivalents so you can recognize them in the radical table and code examples.
Core Concepts
| Chinese | English | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 风水形音输入法 | Fengshui Form-Phonetic Input Method | The name of this input method; “Fengshui” for short |
| 风水 | Feng Shui / Geomancy | The traditional concept behind the layout |
| 字根 | radical / character root | The basic components a character is split into |
| 字根表 | radical table | The 26-key layout of radicals |
| 字根字 | root character | A character that is itself a radical |
| 拆字 / 拆分 | decomposition | Breaking a character down into its radicals |
| 编码 | code | The sequence of keys that produces a character or word |
| 重码 | code collision | When one code maps to multiple characters |
| 候选词 / 候选 | candidate (word) | A choice offered by the input method |
Coding Rules
| Chinese | English | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 一简字 | one-key character | Type one key + Space to commit |
| 二简字 | two-key character | Two keys + Space |
| 三简字 | three-key character | Three keys + Space |
| 音补 / 补码 | phonetic supplement | A phonetic code used as the final identifying key |
| 空格上屏 | press Space to commit | Confirm the selection with the Space bar |
| 末码 | final code | The last key of a code |
| 词库 | dictionary / word list | The 157,000-word built-in dictionary |
Culture & Layout
| Chinese | English | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 米人字形 / 米人布局 | the 米 (rice) / 人 (person) glyph layout | Left-hand area = 米 shape, right-hand area = 人 shape |
| 阴阳 | Yin-Yang | The dual forces in Chinese philosophy |
| 五行 | the Five Elements | Metal (金), Wood (木), Water (水), Fire (火), Earth (土) |
| 字母象形 | alphabetic pictography | Letters resembling radical shapes |
| 易经 / 周易 | I Ching / Book of Changes | |
| 通用规范汉字表 | Table of General Standard Chinese Characters | The 8,105-character standard set |
The custom symbols you see in the radical table (e.g. the glyph after “Sample radical” on the home page) are Private Use Area (PUA) characters drawn from the embedded
EUDC.ttffont. They are not standard Unicode and are rendered only when that font loads.