SELECTION SYSTEM FOR IDEOGRAPHIC CHARACTERS BY TOUCH TYPING USING PHONETIC\HIEROGLYPHIC CODES

A system for ideographic character selection. Provision is made for selection of desired ideographic characters by use of designators termed combinational headwords each having a one-to-one correspondence with an ideographic character. The designators are phonetic/hieroglyphic coded and are applied to a reader the output of which is applied to a converter and to an output unit which outputs a signal corresponding to the desired Chinese or otherwise ideographic character which has been designated.