'shape-expressing code'), is a kind of shape-based Chinese character input method invented by Chen Aiwen, an overseas Chinese scholar living in France in the 1980s.
Because it is intuitive in the splitting of Chinese characters and has theoretical support in Chinese characters, it had once attracted widespread attention at the beginning of the invention and was listed as a key project in China Torch Project.
[4] The smallest constituent parts of each Chinese character are called strokes.
Characters are divided into several components, which are coded to the English letter resembling them.
Moreover, the biggest advantage of Biaoxingma is that crossed strokes are never divided into two components.