• "standard" method. In mainland China, pinyin methods such as Sogou Pinyin and Google Pinyin are the most popular. In Taiwan, use of Cangjie, Dayi, Boshiamy, and...
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    The Cangjie input method (Tsang-chieh input method, sometimes called Changjie, Cang Jie, Changjei or Chongkit) is a system for entering Chinese characters...
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    input method (simplified Chinese: 五笔字型输入法; traditional Chinese: 五筆字型輸入法; pinyin: wǔbǐ zìxíng shūrùfǎ; lit. 'five-stroke character model input method'), often...
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    The four-corner method or four-corner system (simplified Chinese: 四角号码检字法; traditional Chinese: 四角號碼檢字法; pinyin: sì jiǎo hàomǎ jiǎnzì fǎ; lit. 'four corner...
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  • The pinyin method (simplified Chinese: 拼音输入法; traditional Chinese: 拼音輸入法; pinyin: pīnyīn shūrù fǎ) refers to a family of input methods based on the pinyin...
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    Taiwan than on the mainland, and is used as a secondary electronic input method for Taiwanese Mandarin, as well as in dictionaries and other non-official...
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  • most popular encoding for Chinese-language text. There are various input method editors (IMEs) available for the input of Chinese characters. Many characters...
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  • words in Chinese-language texts. Pinyin is also used by various input methods on computers and to categorize entries in some Chinese dictionaries. Hànyǔ...
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    Dictionary by Herbert Giles, published in 1892, popularized the Wade–Giles method of transliteration. This system had been created by Thomas Francis Wade...
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  • of the method), or the Cangjie method, in which characters are broken down into a set of 24 basic components. Neither the four-corner method nor the...
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  • Tsung-ch’ien; Rudolph, Richard C., eds. (1948). Literary Chinese by The Inductive Method: The Hsiao Ching. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). University of Chicago Press. OCLC 4372662...
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    inscriptions based on the name of Yinxu, their purpose (卜 bǔ 'to divine'), or the method of inscription (契 qì 'to engrave'). A previously common term was 殷墟卜辭 (Yīnxū...
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    millennium BC). The fanqie method used to indicate pronunciation in these dictionaries, though an improvement on earlier methods, proved awkward in practice...
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    characters to aid young learners) and represents the dominant digital input method on electronic devices. (Before the introduction of Hanyu pinyin starting...
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  • historical linguistics, a field which often incorporates the comparative method to deduce these sorts of changes. Unfortunately the use of this technique...
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  • Chinese markets or on traditional handwritten invoices. There is a common method of using of one hand to signify the numbers one to ten. While the five digits...
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  • written with logographic characters, not alphabetic or syllabary, the methods employed in Historical Chinese phonology differ considerably from those...
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    Cantonese grammar Classical grammar Idioms Chengyu Xiehouyu Input Biaoxingma Boshiamy Cangjie Simplified CKC Dayi Pinyin Google Microsoft Sogou Stroke count...
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    composed of the signific 走 zǒu 'run' and the phonetic 旱 hàn 'drought'. This method was used to represent many elements in the periodic table. The PRC, as well...
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    words meaning 'which one' for 'which'. Cantonese grammar Chinese input methods for computers Lingnan culture Written Cantonese Written Chinese Languages...
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    the addition of bù and a particular complement of result is the standard method of negation. In many cases the complement is liǎo, represented by the same...
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  • (r or h) is added after the vowel. Wherever possible, the concise first method is used. An important principle of Gwoyeu Romatzyh is that text should use...
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  • family, proto-Hakka is difficult to reconstruct through the comparative method due to its multistratal lexicon. It is believed that Sinitic migration into...
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  • fact observed as far back as Edkins (1868), and is the most productive method of creating new words. Many recent borrowings in Shanghainese originating...
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    been proposed to encode Chinese characters using the "track and point set" method, which allows users to make their own personalized semi-cursive fonts. Calligraphy...
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    done by writing notes in Chinese to aid in the memorization of suras. This method was also used to write Chinese translations of Arabic vocabulary learned...
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    Because of the variety of dialects spoken, there are usually few formal methods for learning a local dialect. Due to the variety in Chinese speech, Mandarin...
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  • drive for Han to write the novel. Suzhou dialect is used in innovative methods to demonstrate urban space and time, as well as the interrupted narrative...
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  • standardised systems and resort to ad hoc methods of romanisation based on English, Malay and Pinyin spelling rules. These methods are in common use for many proper...
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    characters whose forms are wholly related to their meaning, regardless of the method by which the meaning was originally depicted, phonographs that include a...
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