How do Asian keyboards work?

Question

Chinese / Japanese.
There seam to be so many characters.
I'm so confused!

Answer 1

XD I'd be stumped too if I weren't using one. There are many softwares you can download onto your computer to type in Chinese and/or Japanese. For Chinese, I use a software by Sogo. Like the other software, you type in Pinyin (the pronounciation of the character you want), and different characters that have the pinyin you typed in will appear. With the software, I can switch between English and Chinese by pressing shift. Say I want a word that has the pinyin "Ma". I'd press "shift" and then type in "ma". The options that appear are: 吗，嘛，骂，妈...and so on. When I want to type in English, I simply press "shift" again.

Answer 2

On control pannel there is an option for languages. If you install the "files for east Asia languages" it will give you the option to change the way your keyboard works by choosing a language. I use the Chinese and Korean so on the toolbar at the bottom of your screen there is going to be a square next to all the icons you have on the right side. This box will have EN for English, KO for Korean and so on (don't recall Chinese. don't have it on this pc) Now for Chinese they have the Pinyin. This is how the characters are pronounced. For example "I" is WO with a third accent. So once you've switched from EN to Chinese you will type it WO. Then there is going to be a selection of characters which are written as WO but use different accents. SInce "I" is wo to the third accent then you choose the one that has a 3.

For Korean it works the same but instead of Pinyin the Hangul is used. This don't require accents, but it does require sometimes separating the syllables with a key (in which you choose to work with) since practically each group of characters you see is a syllable of a word. The pc might not catch that is two different syllables and mark it as one THEN you need to use the key that I said before to separate it and make into the syllable you want it to be.

Kinda complicated but then you get used to all the choosing lol

Answer 3

That's only for chinese. Koreans and Japanese have an alphabet. I'm writing on a Korean and English keyboard right now. It's basically a QWERTY keyboard with Korean letters printed on each key next to the english letters. I just switch on the Korean fonts, and voila: 한글.

Answer 4

Well, I can type japanese into my computer and it's just by switching to japanese then sounding out their characters with english letters. どもありがと　Mr. Roboto :)

Answer 5

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