Cangjie

Cangjie
Portrait of Cangjie
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	倉頡
Simplified Chinese	仓颉
Hanyu Pinyin	Cāngjié
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Cāngjié Bopomofo ㄘㄤ   ㄐㄧㄝˊ Gwoyeu Romatzyh Tsangjye Wade–Giles Tsʻang1-chieh2 IPA [tsʰáŋ.tɕjě] Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Chōngkit Jyutping Cong1kit3 IPA [tsʰɔŋ˥.kʰit̚˧] Southern Min Tâi-lô Tshong-khiat (lit.) Tshng-khiat (col.)
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabet	Thương Hiệt
Chữ Hán	倉頡
Korean name
Hangul	창힐
Hanja	倉頡
Transcriptions Revised Romanization Changhil
Japanese name
Kanji	蒼頡
Hiragana	そうけつ
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn Sōketsu Kunrei-shiki Souketsu

Cangjie [tsʰáŋ.tɕjě] (Chinese: 倉頡) is a legendary ancient Chinese figure said to have been an official historian of the Yellow Emperor and the inventor of Chinese characters.^[1] Legend has it that he had four eyes, and that when he invented the characters, the deities and ghosts cried and the sky rained millet. He is considered a legendary rather than historical figure, or at least not considered to be the sole inventor of Chinese characters. Cangjie was the eponym for the (c. 220 BCE) Cangjiepian proto-dictionary, the Cangjie method of inputting characters into a computer, and a Martian rock visited by the Mars rover Spirit, and named by the rover team.^[2]