Chinese word-segmented writing
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Chinese word-segmented writing, or Chinese word-separated writing (simplified Chinese: 分词书写; traditional Chinese: 分詞書寫; pinyin: fēncí shūxiě), is a style of written Chinese where texts are written with spaces between words like written English.[1] Chinese sentences are traditionally written as strings of characters, with no marks between words. Hence, word segmentation according to the context (done either consciously or unconsciously) is a task for the reader.
There are many advantages or reasons of word-segmented writing. An important reason lies in the existence of ambiguous texts where only the author knows the intended meaning and the correct segmentation. For example, "美國會不同意。 美国会不同意。" may mean "美國 會 不同意。 美国 会 不同意。" (The US will not agree.) or "美 國會 不同意。 美 国会 不同意。" (The US Congress does not agree).[2]