Type “a” on a QWERTY keyboard hooked up to a Chinese computer, on the other hand, and the computer is off anticipating the next characters. Typing in Chinese requires mediation from a layer of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The keyboard looks normal on the left, but instead of a numpad, it has a smallish glowing tablet. If we ever wanted to write in Chinese—which we haven’t done in about 14 years—we’d pick up ...

BBC Languages - Learn Chinese in your own time and have fun with A Guide to Languages. Surprising and revealing facts about the Chinese language, key phrases to get started, details on the Chinese ...

Chinese is the oldest continuously used writing system in the world; the characters used today can be traced to pictographs found on bones and turtle shells dating to 1200 BC.

The study focused on cloud-based Pinyin apps, which are used to convert Chinese characters into words spelled with Roman letters. These apps are popular among users in China and are provided by ...

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 ...