How do people in Asian countries type their languages' symbols into their keyboard?

Question

There are obviously more symbols in the Asian Languages than what we have available on latin-based letter keyboards, so how do Chinese, Japanese, Korean etc. type in their language?

Answer 1

For Chinese, there are two categories for typing Chinese characters: typing it phonetically and typing it by decomposing the structure of the character itself. Typing Chinese characters phonetically means typing out how the character sounds either using Latin letters (i.e. Pinyin) or using Zhuyin Fuhao (AKA Bopomofo) and finally picking the correct character that you desire. I'll demonstrate how to decompose characters using the Changjie method, just one out of many other typing methods. 車, the word for car, is decomposed by typing 十(J), then 田(W), and finally 十(J). That's just a simple one and the learning curve for this style of typing is very steep.

For Japanese, there is one category for typing hiragana, katakana, and kanji: typing it phonetically by using Latin letters to sound it out or by using preset hiragana characters on the keyboard. Once you type that out, you have to pick the correct character that you want and you're done.

For Korean, it's an alphabet. So you just type preset Hangul on the keyboard in the correct order and you have a word, just like English.

Answer 2

In Japan, we use Latin-based keyboards with Hiragana on them, so letter keys have both alphabets and Hiragana. (i.e. Alphabet "A" and Hiragana "ち" are in the same letter key.)



The majority of Japanese people type the Japanese words using the Latin alphabets on the keyboard, and the program automatically converts it into Hiragana. If it is the right character, we press [Enter] to confirm it. If what is displayed is not the correct one, we press [Space bar] and will see the list of the characters (several kinds of kanji and katakana). In order to select a character, we either click on the character or press the number of the character on the keyboard. This process is the same for those who use Hiragana on their keyboards.



Compared to Latin-alphabet countries, we have additional works to display our language on the screen!



Note: The Japanese language is written with a combination of three different types of glyphs: kanji (there are about 50,000 kanji but about 2,000 are mainly used in daily life.), hiragana (46 cases), and katakana (46 cases).

Answer 3

Most keyboards that I saw in China were normal Latin based keyboards. The computer had a program (down-loadable from Microsoft) to recognize the Chinese pinyin system. you type in the word in pinyin, and then characters come up and it gives multiple options for each one. As well, I know that similar things are available for most languages, but you just have to know how to use them - for example, at my school they have about 10 language input options, but I only know Mandarin.

Answer 4

I don't know for sure, but I do have the layout for typing in Hindi, and it's quite complicated to me.



You can switch your computer to almost any language, and then you just have to learn where the letters are. I have mine set to toggle between English, Hebrew, and Hindi.



The Hindi alphabet has more letters, so with it, you have to use Shift Keys to get some of the letters. Others require Control + Alt keys to get them. Others require Shift + Control + Alt keys (these are for less used symbols).

Answer 5

The keys are made up of parts of symbols that are put together to make one symbol. there's enough keys. if not, they can just do what the english keyboard operator deos, "Insert>symbol"

Answer 6

Technically, Indians are Asians because they are from the continent of Asia, but I think when someone says they or someone else is "Asian" with no other qualifier, it means they are east Asian. I believe "Asian" replaced "Oriental" when the latter was deemed politically incorrect, but both refer to the same group of people.

Answer 7

they have the same keyword computer and if they want to turn into symbol with shift key...

Answer 8

a keyboard with "short cuts" and more keys

Answer 9

they have their own computer... some are also using the english alphabet...

Answer 10

i dont know either, ive been trying to figure that out.

Answer 11

they got the special system for it!