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About the Ch inese

anguage Kit 11

Sound-Based Input Systems

ound-based, or phonetic, input

odes allow you to write the Chinese characters bas ed on

how characters sound in Mandarin Chinese. There are two types:

m Typ ing speciﬁc keys f or Chinese phonetic sy

bols

(

bo po

o fo

)

To use the Chinese phonetic sy

bols effectively, you need to know how to speak Chinese

characters and tr anscribe the

into the phonetic sy

bols.

m Typ ing

an characters to spell the Chin ese characters using the Pinyin phonetic

tr anscription syste

Pinyin is popular with users who do not know how to write Chin ese char acters and

have li

ited knowledge of how to pronounce Chines e words.

Becaus e Ch inese words are distinguished by sub tle tonal variatio ns that are difﬁcult t o

transcribe phonetically,

any differen t Chinese characters have the sa

e phonetic

spelling in Pinyin.

hen you enter the Pinyin for a Chinese character, the input syste

often identiﬁes

any characters with that spelling and you

ust choo se the character you

want. For exa

ple, 34 Traditional Chinese characters are transcribed in Pinyin as

“

ren

”

and

app ear as alternatives if you enter these

an characters.

Note:

The Traditional Chinese Pinyin input

ode allows you to enter a nu

ber for the

tonal variation to n arrow the list of alternatives.

Although enter ing Chines e using Pinyin requires se veral steps, it allows people who are

not ﬂuent in wr iting t he language to create a Chinese-langu age docu

ent.

Other Features of the Chinese Language Kit

In addition to allowing you to enter Chinese characters, both the Traditional Ch inese and

pliﬁed Chinese input

ethods provide other i

portant features:

m an input

ode that allows you to type

an characters

m an input

ode for entering Apple

hare passwords

m a dictionary in which you can deﬁ ne your own words and phrases

m palettes for looking up the input keys for ch aracters, punctuation, and sy

bols

m an option to show th e key co

binations to enter characters in the selection palette

m an option to display other characters freq uently associated with a character you enter

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