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In this early system, when the user types "yk", for example, to get the Chinese character 文, the Cangjie codes do not get converted to any character encoding and the actual string "yk" is stored. The Cangjie code for each character (a string of 1 to 5 lowercase letters plus a space) {{em|was}} the encoding of that particular character.
[[Image:Mingzhu xiaoziku1.PNG|frame|right|Demonstration of character generator ''Mingzhu''{{'}}s capability to generate characters according to the codes
A particular "feature" of this early system is that, if one sends random lowercase words to it, the character generator will attempt to construct Chinese characters according to the Cangjie decomposition rules, sometimes causing strange, unknown characters to appear. This unintended feature, "automatic generation of characters", is described in the manual and is responsible for producing [[#number-of-characters|more than 10,000 of the 15,000 characters]] that the system can handle. The name Cangjie, evocative of the creation of new characters, was indeed apt for this early version of Cangjie.
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