Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

On November 10, the first anniversary of the public welfare action of the "Chinese character Guardian Plan" was released. The official guide "Collection of rare characters" on Mini Program has so far attracted more than 25 million participants and submitted 16800 obscure words. According to the preliminary screening of the Electronic Industry Standardization Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, 457 of them have not been coded by the mandatory national standard GB 18030 "Information Technology Chinese coding character set". They are mainly used in place names, personal names and dialects, which are of high practical or cultural value. On the same day, "Collection of rare characters" launched the "Jiuzi document" function on Mini Program and continued to collect relevant research materials on 457 rare characters from the public to help the expert Group speed up the completion of textual research and coding applications.

According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 6000 million names in the country, as well as a large number of place names, ancient books and dialects containing rare words, most of which have not yet been digitized. In November last year, Tencent, together with the Electronic Industry Standardization Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Guangming Daily all Media, Beijing National Financial Standardization Research Institute, Hanyi character Library, OPPO, Shaanxi History Museum and other institutions and enterprises jointly launched the "Chinese character Guardian Plan" public welfare action, giving full play to their respective advantages and increasing investment to speed up the whole digital link of obscure words, in order to help solve the problem of using rare words. Re-Huan and inherit the traditional Chinese culture behind the obscure characters. The plan will be launched on Mini Program on April 20 this year to solicit rare characters directly from the public that cannot be entered.

The digitization of obscure characters is a complex system engineering. Every Chinese character used in digital system has to go through a series of links, such as "discovery, textual research, coding, national standard expansion, glyph design, input and display, popularization and application" and so on. Among them, the coding process of Chinese characters has a long period and high complexity, so it is necessary to do a lot of textual research on the actual scope of use of Chinese characters, the correctness of form, sound and meaning, the difference and identification of characters, and the use cases of literature. it involves many fields such as language, culture, information technology, standardization and so on, so it needs to invest a lot of manpower to find ancient books and practical application cases. According to the regular process and schedule estimation, it will take at least two years to complete the application coding data of the 457 Chinese characters.

Huang Shanshan, director of the Chinese Information Research Office of the Electronic Industry Standardization Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said, "rare character solicitation Mini Program provides efficient support for 'collecting characters' in innovative ways, especially the 457 uncoded Chinese characters selected this time. More come from the daily life of residents everywhere, with a deep mass base and fresh social vitality. The Electronic Industry Standardization Research Institute is giving priority to the textual research of these Chinese characters, speeding up the promotion of coding and expanding the GB font. "

In order to further improve the efficiency of textual research of application coding materials, "rare character Collection" has a new online "Jiuzi document" function in Mini Program, which supports users from all over the country to participate at a low threshold. Wechat search for "rare character Collection" Mini Program can join, fill in the pronunciation, source and other information of Chinese characters.

▲ can quickly upload textual research materials of obscure characters with "Jiuzi document" Lu Jian, general manager of Tencent input method Department, said, "the Chinese character guardian plan pays attention to the whole link, and Mini Program has achieved initial results. The core is to take people's livelihood and culture as the starting point, and use digital technology to pool the power of the public for good. The development of the 'Jiuzi document' hopes to play the connecting role of the platform, so that these uncoded Chinese characters have a 'digital identity' as soon as possible. At the same time, Tencent Sogou Input will continue to pragmatically promote the landing of rare word solutions in financial, medical and other livelihood scenes. "

It is reported that of the 457 uncoded rare words, 328 are used for place names, accounting for 72%, and 66 for personal names, accounting for 14%. For example, the place name in Gaoming District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, uses the word "Tu Qi" (left and right structure, which is pronounced as Quan ng). This word is used in the name of a village in Hecheng Street-"Xia Chang" Tu Yi "Village". Local residents take case pictures of the use of the word in their daily life, or find cultural research materials such as the use history and local chronicles of the word, and upload them to the "Jiuzi document", which can help experts to collect textual research materials and achieve more efficient targeted investigation.

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