Heptapods are a sapient, space-faring extraterrestrial species. After first contact with Humans, two Heptapods, nicknamed Abbott and Costello, attempted to communicate with Dr. Louise Banks and Ian Donnelly from their ship in Montana.

The Heptapod languages are two constructed fictional languages used in Ted Chiang's short story, "Story of Your Life", as well as its later film adaptation, Arrival. In-universe, they are used by the "heptapods", an alien race that makes contact with humanity.

而 姜峯楠 则认为，外星人的象形会意文字（Heptapod B），用一种更简捷的方式描述了物理。 Ted Chiang 认为，中国的文字不随时间而改变，令中国人拘泥于过去；

Dubbed "looking glasses", they are audiovisual links to the aliens in orbit, who are called heptapods for their seven-limbed radially symmetrical appearance. Louise and physicist Dr. Gary Donnelly are recruited by the U.S. Army to communicate with the aliens, and are assigned to one of nine looking glass sites in the U.S.

2020年10月22日 · In Arrival, linguistics professor Dr. Louise Banks is recruited by the military to translate the language of the newly arrived alien heptapods. Her job is to find the answer to the question everyone is asking: why are they here? Language is a crucial piece of the answer.

2020年1月28日 · Thanks to the partnership between Octobus and Clever Cloud, we are bringing up a public Heptapod service for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). This new service is available from January 27th, 2020, and will be ready to …

2016年11月23日 · Banks' brain reshapes itself as she cracks the strange iconographic language of the visiting "Heptapods," whose language is made out of inky, black, loop-shaped blots that resemble Rorschach-test...

2023年9月6日 · Although Heptapod is a form of language found only in Chiang’s novella, it is still science fiction. It is the property of the Heptapods, a mysterious alien race whose impressive linguistic...

2020年2月28日 · 七肢桶有两种语言，记为Heptapod A和Heptapod B，前者为口头语，后者为书面语。 Heptapod A和人类的口头语没什么本质区别。 Heptapod B则和人类的书面语有天壤之别。

This is a web application that helps you translate phrases written in Rook's Heptapod, a writing system I created based on the logograms from Ted Chiang's novel "Story of Your Life" and the movie "Arrival".