五笔编码

五筆編碼

wǔbǐbiānmǎ

noun

Meanings

1 Wubi input encoding
2 five-stroke (Wubi) Chinese character input method

Characters

to compile; to encode

Examples

他打字用五笔编码，速度很快。

Tā dǎzì yòng wǔbǐbiānmǎ, sùdù hěn kuài.

He types with the Wubi input method — very fast.

学五笔编码需要记住字根表。

Xué wǔbǐbiānmǎ xūyào jì zhù zìgēnbiǎo.

Learning Wubi requires memorizing the radical chart.

Tips

culture

五笔 (Wǔbǐ) is a shape-based input method invented by 王永民 in 1983, decoding characters from five basic stroke types (横竖撇捺折). Faster than pinyin once mastered, but rare among younger users — pinyin and handwriting now dominate.

Stroke Order

五 wǔ

笔 bǐ

编 biān

码 mǎ