Cangjie

Portrait of Cangjie showing his four eyes and eight pupils

Cang Jie (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: }}}; pinyin: ) is a legendary figure in ancient China, claimed to be an official historian of the Yellow Emperor and the inventor of the Chinese characters. Legend has it that he had four eyes and eight pupils.^{[[Citing sources citation needed]]} When he invented the characters, the deities and ghosts cried and the sky rained millets. He is not considered to be a historical figure, or at least, not considered to be sole inventor of Chinese characters. The Cangjie method, a Chinese character input method, is named after him.

A rock on Mars visited by Mars rover Spirit is named after him by the rover team.

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