thanks, i meant something like this from chc link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_input_methods_for_computers#Shape-based http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch

thanks, i meant something like this from chc link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_input_methods_for_computers#Shape-based http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_input_methods_for_compu... except the phonetic method you describe, you may enter graphical parts of symbols. so i thought unicode should encode these parts. but there are more than one shape-based method, along with several phonetic methods, so they encode all the possible ideograms, making the unicode chart that big