I wonder how one could design a better Morse code for Chinese
In terms of efficiency, I guess you might start by ranking characters by frequency, and build a Huffman code? Then think about adding parity bits or sync symbols or whatnot.
It's hard to imagine people learning it, rather than painstakingly looking up each character in a book, but I suppose it'd be similar to learning any other numeric mapping. Wikipedia says "Chinese expert telegraphers used to remember several thousands of codes of the most frequent use".
In terms of efficiency, I guess you might start by ranking characters by frequency, and build a Huffman code? Then think about adding parity bits or sync symbols or whatnot.
It's hard to imagine people learning it, rather than painstakingly looking up each character in a book, but I suppose it'd be similar to learning any other numeric mapping. Wikipedia says "Chinese expert telegraphers used to remember several thousands of codes of the most frequent use".