Chinese Character Number Convertor
Because someone's just bound to ask, Where are all these numbers coming from?
The convertor on this page will translate Chinese characters into the numbers
that have been presented on previous pages. Copy the sample text. Paste it into the grey text box, and click one of the buttons to convert text into numbers. (For explanations on the html and JavaScript coding behind this page, see Alphanumeric Substitutions.)
Sample text: 中國要回歸上帝.
Remarks
- The Javascript on this page is not guaranteed to be bug free, though it has been tested.
- The convertor is based on the traditional Chinese characters from the Big5 character set not Unicode.
- This version includes the 2008 Hong Kong extension to the Big5 character set. (For the Chinese version of the Bible, the extension isn't really necessary.)
- Paste Chinese text into the textbox, and choose one of the number conversion formats.
- Non-Chinese, or non-Greek text usually returns zero.
- Greek text with the
Chinese Characters Only!
button will produce negative numbers. - Greek text with the
Chinese Greek Mix
button will not produce numbers following Ivan Panin's system, or the numbers presented on previous pages for the New Testament. This is only for Chinese and Greek as seen in the pages for Revelation 1:8, 22:13, and John's vision. - ***If no text in the box is selected, the program automatically converts everything inside and does not show anything other than the total. Clear the box each time, or be sure to highlight the section for conversion to avoid unpredictable results.***
- All punctuation will be ignored and stripped.
- Default display consists of five lines: 1) the original characters, 2) Unicode decimal numbers, 3) Big5 decimal numbers, 4) the numeric value of the character1, 5) the total of the word or phrase with any factors.
Notes
The numeric value of a character is its position within the Big5 character set. This is calculated by subtracting the position of the very first character and adding 1. In the case of converting only Chinese characters, the very first character is 一 (yat, the number one). Its decimal equivalent is 42048. In the case of converting a mix of Chinese and Greek, the very first character is Α (alpha) and its decimal equivalent is 41796.
If a word or phrase is divisible by 7 with the
Chinese Characters Only!
button, it will also be divisible by 7 with theChinese & Greek Mix
button and vice versa. Was it coincidence that Big5 was constructed this way? Or did God or an angel have a hand in it?