Abstract: A method for audio-video coding of Chinese characters wherein each audio-video code has two elements. The first element is an audio code element, and the second element is a video code element. The audio code element is always made of two English letters. The first English letter of the audio code element represents the consonant of the syllable of a Chinese character, and the second English letter represents the vowel of the syllable of the Chinese character. The video code element is made of two English letters in most situations. The first English letter of the video code element represent the first stroke of the Chinese character, and the second English letter represents the last stroke of the Chinese character. Only for 24 particular Chinese characters their respective video code element has one English letter, and for approximately 4% Chinese characters their respective video code element has an additional English letter "C" for indicating duplicated codes.