Typewriters that can type Chinese characters were first invented in the early 20th century. Written Chinese is a logographic writing system, and facilitating the use of thousands of Chinese characters requires more complex engineering than for a writing system derived from the Latin alphabet, which may require only tens of glyphs.[1][2] An ordinary Chinese printing office uses 6,000 Chinese characters.[3] Chinese typewriters, and similar Japanese typewriters invented by Kyota Sugimoto, which use kanji adopted from the Chinese writing system, started to appear only in the early 20th century.[3][4] There have been at least five dozen different models of Chinese typewriter, ranging from sizable mechanical models to sophisticated electric word processors.[5]
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