16. A method for selecting and printing desired ideographs from a list of available ideographs comprising coding the available ideographs by at least a portion of the phonetic spelling of their commonly used names, coding the available ideographs by a descriptive characteristic of each available ideograph, storing the codes as coded information representing the available ideographs, inputing information representing at least a portion of the phonetic spelling of a desired ideograph, inputing information representing the descriptive characteristic of the desired ideograph, comparing the inputed information representing the phonetic spelling and descriptive characteristic of the desired ideograph with the stored coded information of the available ideographs, selecting the desired ideograph based on the stored coded information and the input information and visually reproducing the selected indeograph thereby permitting the use of a conventional keyboard by a person without special training to uniquely identify and print each desired ideograph.
26. The method of claim 16 wherein the descriptive characteristic includes the suggested meaning of the ideographs and the descriptive information includes the phonetic spelling of said meaning.