哈夫曼树（Huffman tree），又名最优树，指给定n个权值作为n的叶子结点，构造一棵二叉树，若带权路径长度达到最小，称这样的二叉树为最优二叉树，也称为哈夫曼树(Huffman tree)。哈夫曼树是带权路径长度最短的树，权值较大的结点离根较近。若将树中结点赋给一个有着某种含义的数值，则这个数值称为该结点的权。(Huffman tree (Huffman tree), also known as the tree, given n as n weights of the leaf node,