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Key facts
- Traditional chinese
- 畢昇
- Simplified chinese
- 毕昇
- Hanyu pinyin
- Bì Shēng
- Wade giles
- Pi Sheng
- Ipa
- [pi ̂ ʂə ́ ŋ]
- Yale romanization
- Bāt Sīng
- Jyutping
- Bat1 Sing1
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Bi
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Northern Song dynasty
- Place of birth
- Yingshan County
- Place of death
- Greater China
- Occupation
- printer
- Image
- Mengxi bitan.jpg
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- date of birth
- 0990-01-01
- date of death
- 1052-01-01
- Commons category
- Bi Sheng
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Encyclopedic overview
Bi Sheng and his invention at the China Printing Museum in Beijing Bi Sheng (972–1051) was a Chinese artisan and engineer during the Song dynasty (960–1279), who invented the world's first movable type. Bi's system used fired clay tiles, one for each Chinese character, and was invented between 1039 and 1048. Printing was one of the Four Great Inventions. Because Bi was a commoner, not an educated person, little is known about his life besides this invention.
Movable type printing
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bi Sheng” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.