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Wubi

Today it means: A Chinese text input method based on the structure of characters rather than their pronunciation. Full definition →

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From Mandarin 五筆／五笔 (wǔbǐ, “five strokes”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.