My flatmate was learning chinese but they have about 10000 characters, you can't fit that on a keyboard
2006-09-15 09:17:03 · 8 answers · asked by mrmoo 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
I'm not sure.
I helped a Chinese student one time on an American computer and the keyboard offered up choices. Sort of like one key stroke would offer a pop up box of three Chinese characters (or symbols, I suppose) and she'd choose which one. She sorta built words from that, I think.
Oh yeah, the computer screen had a virtual keyboard she used when typing on the real one. Like a template.
2006-09-15 09:25:56 · answer #1 · answered by wrathofkublakhan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Chinese keyboard isn't really any different from a regular keyboard. The difference is in the method of characters are being recognize by a sequence of key strokes.
There are a number of ways to enter Chinese characters, most common ways are by sound and by parts.
In an editor, for example Word, the user will set the entry mode first. The entry mode will determine what each key represents.
A good Chinese key entry person remembers what each key corresponding in a particular entry mode without having to look at the keyboard. The Chinese keyboard is useful for beginner and recreational users to have special character on the key to remind them. But the outcome is no different than if you just use regular keyboard.
2006-09-15 16:28:44 · answer #2 · answered by JQT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Found this on wikipedia: Chinese characters almost all have 2 parts, radical (on the left side) and the character. You use the keyboard to select the radical or at least something similar and you get a list of possible words. You press the number to select which you want.
Chinese keyboards are all different, Hong Kong, Mainland China and Taiwan all use different keyboards and different system for typing out chinese characters.
2006-09-15 16:32:50 · answer #3 · answered by costco.mart 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My college roommate (whose parents were from Taiwan) showed me a chinese keyboard once. As I recall, there are a certain (relatively small) number of basic "strokes" for any chinese character. Each key represents one of those strokes. So each character is made up of several key presses (just like each of our words is made up of several letters).
There are chinese dictionaries, too. They use the same concept.
2006-09-15 16:26:46 · answer #4 · answered by kris 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They work in a similar way to double dutch ones
2006-09-15 16:20:52 · answer #5 · answered by jamesoliver 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fly there and find out! have fun!
2006-09-15 16:24:08 · answer #6 · answered by Rebecca 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
dont know
2006-09-15 16:24:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
use pinyin
2006-09-18 01:58:47 · answer #8 · answered by autumnray 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋