Shui nationality characters stroke shape input method

Abstract

Shape of Shui nationality characters is similar to that of Oracle and Jinwen. In order to work out the problems of how to code hieroglyph, a coding method based on stroke shape for Shui Nationality characters is proposed. The shapes of 467 Shui Nationality characters in the Common Shui Script Dictionary are analyzed, and seven basic strokes are extracted to consist of main Shui characters. Through the statistical comparison, 21 kinds of stroke shape can be got by subdividing the seven basic strokes. A Shui Nationality character is coded by an ordered sequence composed by three strokes taken from the corner of the character according to the coding rules. Finally, the users who can not read the Shui character can input it easily and quickly.