Cangjie Input Method / 倉頡輸入法 Mystery Cache

Brief Introduction

Most people in Taiwan type in Bopomofo (注音), but still some others type in Cangjie (倉頡), let's learn more about it！

Cangjie input method (倉頡輸入法) was invented by Mr. Chu Bong-Foo in 1976, he gave up his copyright a few years later so that everyone could use it freely. There are many versions and varients developing form it, but their core concepts are basically the same; currently version 3 (三代倉頡) is the most prevalent, it's supported by gboard in smartphones and by microsoft traditional Chinese IME in PCs; the following content is also based on version 3.

倉頡輸入法由朱邦復先生於1976年發明，並於之後發展出許多版本，目前主要使用的版本為三代倉頡，微軟及google輸入法都有支援。

Briefly How It Works

There are 24 radicals (字根) in total, they represent 24 basic shapes (基礎字形) by themselves, and also dozens of auxiliary shapes (輔助字形) listing as follows. The bold blue characters are basic shapes, while the others in black are auxiliary shapes.

倉頡輸入法共有24個字根及由其衍生的數十個輔助字形，如下圖。

The locations of these radicals on a keyboard are as follows：

Each chracters can be decomposed into at most five Cangjie codes, here are some basic rules：

• Direction of decomposition: left to right, top to bottom, and outside to inside
• Geometrically connected forms: take at most four Cangjie codes, namely the first, second, third, and last codes
• Geometrically unconnected forms that can be broken into two subforms (e.g., 你):

1. identify the two geometrically connected subforms according to the direction of decomposition rules (i.e., 人 and 尔)
2. take the first and last codes of the first subform (人)
3. take the first, second, and last code of the second subform (弓火)

(你=人弓火)

• Geometrically unconnected forms that can be broken into multiple subforms (e.g., 謝):

1. identify the first geometrically connected subform according to the direction of decomposition rules (i.e., 言)
2. take the first and last codes of that form (卜口)
3. next, break the remainder (i.e., 射) into subforms (i.e., 身 and 寸)
4. take the first and last codes of the first subform (竹竹)
5. take the last code of the last subform (戈)

(謝=卜口竹竹戈)

倉頡碼最多由五碼組成，以下是一些拆字規則：

• 拆字方向：由左而右、由上而下、由外而內
• 連體字：依照拆字方向，最多取四碼，取第一、第二、第三及最後一碼
• 可分割為字首及字身：字首最多取首末兩碼，字身最多取第一、第二及末碼，若字身可再分割為次字首及次字身，且次字首為一碼，則次字身最多可取首末兩碼；若次字首為首末兩碼，則次字身取末碼

Some Examples

After the basic rules, let's look into some examples：

Geometrically connected forms (無法分割)

車=十田十

[top to bottom, all three codes]

馬=尸手尸火

[top to bottom, all four codes]

鳥=竹日卜火

[top to bottom, first, second, third and last codes]

Geometrically unconnected forms that can be broken into two subforms (字首、字身)

法=水土戈

[left：水, right：土戈]

碼=一口尸手火

[left：一口(all two codes), right：尸手火(first, second, last codes)]

食=人戈日女

[up：人, bottom：戈日女(all three codes)]

養=廿人戈日女 

[up：廿人(first and last codes), bottom：戈日女(all three codes)]

Geometrically unconnected forms that can be broken into multiple subforms (字首、次字首、次字身)

解=弓月尸竹手

[left：弓月(土is inside 月, so takes 弓月 instead of 弓土), up right：尸竹(all two codes), bottom right：手(last code)]

街=竹人土土弓

[left：竹人, middle：土土, right：弓 (last code)]

羅=田中女火土

[up：田中(first and last codes), bottom left：女火(first and last codes), bottom right：土(last code)]

寶=十一山金

[up：十, middle：一山(first and last codes), bottom：金(last code)]

After the examples above, let's look into more "intimidating looking" ones：

豔=山廿土戈廿

[left：山廿(first and last codes), up right：土戈(all two codes), bottom right：廿(last code)]

贏=卜口月月弓 (version 3)

[up：卜口(first and last codes), bottom left：月, bottom right：月弓(first and last codes)]

龍=卜月卜尸心

[left：卜月(first and last codes), right：卜尸心(first, second and last codes)]

龜=弓難山 (難 is used in some occasions to represent a complex shape)

[up to bottom, all three codes]

屬=尸卜卜戈 (version 3)

[up：尸, middle：卜卜(first and last codes), bottom：戈(last code)]

About the cache

Great respect if you went through all of the above and have not closed the cache page yet. (to be honest when I first read about Cangjie, I put the book aside after a few glances)

Please activate Cangjie IME in phones or computers for the following questions. Remember to press space after each character.

每個字輸入完成後請按空白鍵。

1.

The final coordinates are N 22° 59.UVW E 120° 12.XYZ

V=一土弓人

X=戈心一一金

Z=土月一廿

U, W, Y could be found in the next question.

2.

The translation of "臺灣文學館" is "National Museum of Taiwanese Literature", it has a wide range of exhibitions, no tickets required to enter. What are these five characters' Changjie codes? Please enter the corresponding english alphabets without space, you could check your answer below.

從前面介紹的規則，請問"臺灣文學館"五個字的倉頡碼是什麼?請輸入倉頡碼對應的英文字母，不含空白。

(for example, "倉頡" 's codes are"人戈日口 土口一月金", so please enter "oiargrmbc")

(p.s. if you don't speak Chinese, please refer to the picture "Chinese numbers" at the bottom of the cache page)

You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.