五笔输入法（The five-stroke input）was very popular for a period of time, since this method is based on the stroke construction of each characters. Each of the components are made of smaller strokes.The modern modular strokes are “扎”字法 which are regulated as the 5 one’s, “一”（横）、“丨”（竖）、 “丿”（撇）、“丶”（点）and“乛” （折）.It`s also the foundation for Chinese people to learn writing characters. (You can check more information about Chinese pronunciation here.)Ĭhinese characters have many small components, and you just need to put the small components together and give them order. You just need to choose the one you want and ignore the others you don’t need. When you input the letters of the initial and final, all the corresponding characters with 5 different tones will be shown. This typing method also makes many Chinese learners feel comfortable since they don`t need to memorize the exact tone of each character. Fortunately, it`s not necessary to type out each tone.
You may wonder, then, how about the tones? Well, tones are always the hard part of Chinese pronunciation for many foreigners. The initial and final are constructed with the 26 English alphabet letters, the same as the ones on your keyboard. The phonetic syllables are constructed in three parts, which are the initial, the final, and the tone.
(You can check more information about Chinese characters here.)
Each character has its own pronunciation, though many of them share the same phonetic syllables, which is known as pinyin. Thus, we can get a list of the characters through typing the phonetic syllables. Pinyin Input MethodĪs you can see from the following image, Chinese characters are constructed by various strokes, which are relatively independent from the phonetic system. It`s not possible to list all the characters in the keyboard since there are about 80,000 characters in total. But how can we type out so many characters with just the regular 26 letters? That`s what I`d like to share with you how to type in Chinese. Do the Chinese people even use the same keyboard as in other countries? Or do Chinese keyboards look like this?ĭefinitely not! We Chinese use the same keyboards as other countries do. Chinese, after all, is not composed of letters like the English or Spanish alphabet Chinese is constructed in pictographs composed of many strokes. Many foreigners are often confused with how the Chinese people type out Chinese characters on their cellphones or computers.
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