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The default double pinyin scheme in Microsoft Pinyin IME. Many IME, including ibus-pinyin, support this scheme. Vowel groups in pinyin can be up to four letters long. Double pinyin (双拼) is a method whereby longer vowel groups are assigned to consonant keys as shortcuts, and zh, ch, sh are assigned to vowel keys as shortcuts. Thus, when the ...
Like Cangjie, every radical has some auxiliary shapes; but some of the auxiliary shapes of one radical originate from the mnemonic word of the radical. For example, key 6 is mapped to 車(car) in the keyboard, its mnemonic word is "6片車門"(six pieces of car door), and its auxiliary shapes include "片"(piece), "爿"(old character for "wall", its shape is the reflection of "片"), "甫"(its ...
Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. In official documents, it is referred to as the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet . Hanyu ( 汉语 ; 漢語 ) literally means ' Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while pinyin literally means 'spelled sounds'.
A 17th-century European map using the then-typical transcription of Chinese place names. Note the systematic use of x where pinyin has sh, si where Pinyin has xi, and qu (stylized qv) where Pinyin uses gu A Taiwanese passport, with the name of the bearer (Lin Mei-hua) romanized for international intelligibility
The name "PN" comes from 平捺 (pinyin: Píng Nà), not 撇捺 (pinyin: Piě Nà). The meaning of 平 (pinyin: Píng) is "flat", and it should be called "BN" 扁捺 (pinyin: Biǎn Nà) if the rules are to be followed closely. The letter "Z" in stroke SWZ means 左 (pinyin: Zuǒ), not 折 (pinyin: Zhé). The meaning of 左 is "left", and it is ...
To arrange two Chinese characters into basic alphabetical order, [5] first compare the first letters of the pinyin letter strings of the two characters. If they are different, arrange the characters according to the letters' order in the alphabet (for example, 李 (lǐ) comes before 張 (zhāng), because the initial letter l is before initial letter z in the alphabet); if the first letters are ...
Additionally, the module converts the convenient shorthand v to ü as in most Chinese pinyin IMEs, and the incorrect nue and lue to nüe and lüe respectively. Otherwise, the module does not check whether the input pinyin is entered correctly or not. Also supports putting the accent on esoteric pinyin like on m, ng, and ê. (e.g. ng4 gives ǹg)
It is also used in Tongyong Pinyin and Wade-Giles transcription for the fricative vowels of Mandarin Chinese, which are spelled i in Hanyu Pinyin. ii is used in many languages such as Portuguese (e.g. Semiinsinuante, Sacerdócii) and Finnish (e.g. Riikka, Niinistö, Siitala, Riikkeli), Italian (e.g. Riina), Estonian (e.g. Riik), Scots (e.g ...