哈夫曼编码(Huffman Coding)，又称霍夫曼编码，是一种编码方式，哈夫曼编码是可变字长编码(VLC)的一种。Huffman于1952年提出一种编码方法，该方法完全依据字符出现概率来构造异字头的平均长度最短的码字，有时称之为最佳编码，一般就叫做Huffman编码(有时也称为霍夫曼编码)。-Huffman encoding (Huffman Coding), also called Huffman Coding, is a way of Coding, Huffman Coding is variable word length Coding (VLC). Huffman in 1952 put forward a kind of coding method, this method is completely based on the characters of the occurrence probability to construct　the average length of the shortest code word, sometimes called the best coding, generally is called Huffman coding (sometimes referred to as the Huffman coding).