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Chapter 5: Input Methods

Pinyin input examplesTable 5-2.

Hanzi Zhuyin Full Pinyin Half Pinyin Double Pinyin

 

ZHANG AH AG

 

SHUANG UUH IH

Needless to say, Pinyin input is very important for the input of ideographs in the context

of Chinese.

Kana Versus Transliterated Input

ere are two ways to provide reading-based input to Japanese input methods through

the keyboard array:

Transliterated using Latin characters•

Kana•

Ultimately, most Japanese input methods require kana input, which means that there

must be a mechanism in place for converting transliterated Japanese strings into kana on

the y. Almost all—if not all—such soware support such a mechanism, which permits

Western keyboard arrays, such as the QWERTY keyboard array, to be used to input kana

and thus Japanese text.

Table 5-3 lists the basic set of kana characters (hiragana in this case, but these are equal-

ly applicable to katakana because they represent the same sounds), along with the most

common keystroke or keystrokes that are necessary to produce them. Some Japanese in-

put methods support more than one way of entering some kana, through the use of alter-

nate keystrokes. ese multiple methods for entering kana are provided in Table 5-3 and

are separated by slashes.

Keystrokes to produce kana charactersTable 5-3.

“A” row “I” row “U” row “E” row “O” row



A



I



U



E



O



KA



KI



KU



KE



KO



GA



GI



GU



GE



GO



SA



SI/SHI ...