The mystery woman who mastered IBM’s 5,400-character Chinese typewriter
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(map 'list (lambda (c) (- (char-code c) #x4e00)) "你他我") --> (352 214 5137)
But then, unicode has 20902 ideograms in that plane, while this typewriter had a shorter selection of 5400 ideograms.