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Wang Yongmin (; Pinyin: ''Wáng Yǒngmín'') is a Chinese programmer, who developed Wubi, a very fast input method for entering Chinese characters using a standard Latin keyboard. Currently he is the president of Wangma, a Beijing-based software development company. ==Wang's life== Wang Yongmin was born in 1943, in Nanyang, Henan province, China. In 1968 he graduated from USTC, but soon after that he was sentenced to farm labour in the programme of "labour re-education" during the Chinese Cultural revolution.〔(A short autobiography of Wang Yongmin (in Chinese) )〕 In 1978 he undertook research on a system for decomposing Chinese characters into their constituent parts with minimal ambiguity. This research ultimately resulted in Wubi, an input method patented in China and internationally.〔二十世纪中国名人辞典 (20th Century Who is Who in China), 1991〕 Other structural methods, which first appeared around the same time, assumed a one-to-one mapping between components of Chinese characters and Latin keys (for example, Cangjie). Instead, Wang Yongmin assigned several character components to each key relying on the inherent redundancy of Chinese characters. For example, the U key can generate 13 different shapes (such as 立, 六, 辛 or 冫), but a sequence of at most four keys always disambiguates individual shapes, for example, pressing UEMC produces 毅, mapping U to 立 for this character.〔See the Wubi method for more information.〕 The first PC version of Wubi appeared in 1984, and soon became the most popular method of entering Chinese characters in the PRC, becoming known as "China's first software" (中国第一软件).〔(分析：王永民败诉五笔字型专利案真相 ) In 腾讯网, 13 August 2007.〕 In 1989 Wang Yongmin established his own company Wangma (lit. Wang Code). In 1988 he received the title of National Model Worker (全国劳动模范).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wang Yongmin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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