For millions of Chinese people, the first software they download on a new laptop or smartphone is always the same: a keyboard app. Yet few of them are aware that it may make everything they type ...

Click "Chinese (Traditional) - New Phonetic" from the list of installed services, and then select "Properties." Click the "Keyboard" tab and select "HanYu Pinyin" from the top drop-down menu ...

In the Peoples’ Republic of China, most computer users type out their Chinese in transliteration, using the standard Roman alphabet keys on a QWERTY keyboard. To generate a character, you type ...

Huawei is OK, but Xiaomi, OPPO, and Samsung are in strife. And Honor isn't living its name Many Chinese keyboard apps, some from major handset manufacturers, can leak keystrokes to determined ...

10 facts about Chinese. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Chinese with audio. Get started with 20 audio phrases and learn how to say a range of useful phrases ...

By Yi Zheng and Chris Livaccari “Yi, er, san . . .” A Chinese language student counts each stroke while writing the Chinese character for “big”, 大. This seems like a simple process, but new evidence ...

Embarrassingly, the characters for my Chinese name mean, roughly, “old,” “barley” and “warm.” My personal and cultural histories were messy knots; unraveling them was not as simple as ...

These apps help users type Chinese characters more efficiently and are ubiquitous on devices used by Chinese people. The four most popular apps—built by major internet companies like Baidu ...