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Word: ideograph (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...characters (the most commonly used of the 80,000 in the Chinese language), mounted on a drum. Its keyboard has only 43 keys, 36 of them numerals. To operate the machine, a typist must memorize 5,400 combinations of four numbers each; every combination represents a Chinese word or ideograph. Pressing the keys revolves the electrically operated drum and brings the coded characters into place for printing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Faster Chinese | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

Last week's high point came before 20,000 people, jampacked into New York's Madison Square Garden. Behind her on the crowded stage spread a vast grey-blue cloth backdrop, on which was emblazoned a huge red Chinese ideograph meaning victory. In a long black dress, gold-trimmed, wearing green earrings, black gloves, she looked more like next month's Vogue than the avenging angel of 422,000,000 people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: We Must Try to Forgive | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

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