Friday, April 14, 2017
Chinese orthographic density
Chinese orthographic density
I bumped into this image quite randomly and it answer to a question which bothered me for long : the graphical density of Chinese writting,
There it is:
- if a story is written in english and have 1000 characters including spaces (100%)
- the same story will take 310 chinese characters (31%) ;
- and 1250 french letters (125%) !
I got my numbers, thank you !
Lets push further!
- I have a cute turtle which love to eat Asian lawn.
- ????????????????????
- Jai une jolie tortue qui aime manger du gazon asiatique
As we see... its not that simple. The Chinese characters ? counting for 1 point is orthographically more complex than a simple letter (1point). "?" and "a" are completely different items, at different level of the word complex. One is a radical, a syllable, the other is a sub-morpheme. On the computerside, they are equivalents, on the cognitive, orthographic, phonologic and semantic sides, no, and then, the orthographic complexity of all these language is quite the same.
Ok, compression efficiency is 31%! that what I wanted to know !
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