Can you type Chinese, and if so, which method?

Discussion in 'Chinese Chat' started by hkm91450, Dec 28, 2006.

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Which Chinese input method do you use (most often)?

  1. Pinyin

    60.5%
  2. Simplified Cangjie

    2.6%
  3. Dayi

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    0.0%
  4. Four Corner

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  5. Q9

    3.9%
  6. Other

    10.5%
  7. I can't type Chinese!

    22.4%
  1. hiake

    hiake Vardøgr of da E.Twin

    ^ Not necessary, it just takes practices. With simplified cangjie, you have to know how to write the character to type it, so it may take some more getting-used-to.
     
  2. The_Jelly

    The_Jelly NSFW? :P

    My cousin types Chinese relatively fast. Though I still type English faster :p
     
  3. hiake

    hiake Vardøgr of da E.Twin

    Oh back in those days... I used to type Chinese around the same speed as English, around 80 characters per minute. Lack of practice (and not having NJStar, uses IME instead) got it dropped to around 20 per minute.

    It's all about how much you do it. Practice practice practice.
     
  4. yungliu

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    速成 because PinYin is way too slow due to the mass list you have to dig through for the sake of typing a single character.
     
  5. qpower

    qpower Well-Known Member

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    The language package windows have is pretty bad, but pretty decent without having to install another program
     
  6. Xiah

    Xiah Well-Known Member

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    hah since i got my phone in beijing it types in pinyin and english :D alright!
    too bad i can't understand chinese at all :(
    my other friends type to each other through my phone though hah
     
  7. ochibi12

    ochibi12 Well-Known Member

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    I type using pinyin cause I never learned any other way. Pinyin was the easiest for me to pick up due to the phonetic nature of the system. It'd be nice if someone taught me how to type the other ways, just in case. Because apparently, using pinyin to type is a rather slow method in comparison. -unsure
     
  8. pirvee

    pirvee Well-Known Member

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    I'm using pinyin tooo....the standard IME in windows is ok...if u don't have to typ much text....otherwise..NJSTAR of something else is better....
     
  9. mingming2006

    mingming2006 Well-Known Member

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    use pinyin :p
     
  10. Kqc84

    Kqc84 Well-Known Member

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    i used MS pinyin input
     
  11. 可爱明恬

    可爱明恬 New Member

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    i use a site where you just type in the pingyin for the character and then it gives u options for what charaters match.....it doesnt always work but its the most helpful site i've found so far for me personally. i think at the homepage you can pick whether u want traditional or simplified. i dont remember if it has cantonese though.

    here's the site if your interested:

    http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~zxie3/ime.html
     
  12. mingbill

    mingbill Well-Known Member

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    i use google pinyin
     
  13. gawain187

    gawain187 Well-Known Member

    I use some Java program called CantoInput
     
  14. KT

    KT H E L L O K T ♥

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  15. KaY_xD

    KaY_xD 但願人長久,千里共嬋娟

    NJ Star & Google

     
  16. ede559

    ede559 Well-Known Member

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    i use a program called CantoInput to type using yale(canto pinyin) on my computer. On my mobile I have a NJStar keyboard installed which can also type hyutping.
     
  17. ryuuki

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    Is there a site in English that can teach you how to type the characters using the keyboard, in Cangqie. I heard in Windows, you can set your keyboard to type other languages, but what good would it do if you don't know which key corresponds with what character?
     
  18. AC0110

    AC0110 Let the Fun Begin

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    Same... I use NJ star also
     
  19. person

    person Well-Known Member

    I used MS pinyin. I haven't installed it onto my new laptop though.
     
  20. Weili

    Weili New Member

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    With Hanyu Pinyin, I want to say sometimes I type Chinese even faster than I type English, and I type English pretty fast too.