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Other methods allow users to write characters directly onto [[touchscreen]]s, such as those found on mobile phones and tablet computers.

== History ==

[[Image:Large chinese keyboard.jpg|thumb|right|An early experimental Chinese radical keyboard using 496 keys for input was developed by researchers of [[National Chiao Tung University]] in Taiwan, but was never widely used.<ref name="xinzhu">{{cite web|url=https://hccg.culture.tw/home/zh-tw/NCTU_PC_EQUIPMENT/597871|title=1973年交大研製第一個中文鍵盤|website=The memory of Hsinchu city|language=zh|access-date=2022-08-25}}</ref>]]

Chinese input methods predate the computer. One of the early attempts was an electro-mechanical [[Chinese typewriter]] Ming kwai ({{zh|c=明快 |p=míngkuài |w=ming-k'uai}}) which was invented by [[Lin Yutang]], a prominent Chinese writer, in the 1940s. It assigned thirty base shapes or strokes to different keys and adopted a new way of categorizing Chinese characters. But the typewriter was not produced commercially and Lin soon found himself deeply in debt.<ref>[http://203.68.20.65/science/content/1972/00110035/0018.htm 中文與計算機] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20030513120935/http://203.68.20.65/science/content/1972/00110035/0018.htm |date=2003-05-13 }}</ref>

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In the 1970s to 1980s, large keyboards with thousands of keys were used to input Chinese. Each key was mapped to several Chinese characters. To type a character, one pressed the character key and then a selection key.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://openstd.samr.gov.cn/bzgk/gb/newGbInfo?hcno=3D8D8DCA190E4CB90399EE2FB91F93CC|title=汉字整字键盘盘面字排列 |website=Standardization Administration of China |year=1987|access-date=2022-08-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://m.facebook.com/mitac.com.tw/photos/%E7%A5%9E%E9%80%9A%E8%B3%87%E7%A7%91%E7%9A%84%E5%89%8D%E8%BA%AB%E7%A5%9E%E9%80%9A%E9%9B%BB%E8%85%A6%E6%96%BC1979%E5%B9%B4%E5%87%BA%E5%93%81%E7%9A%84%E7%AC%AC%E4%BA%8C%E4%BB%A3%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E7%B5%82%E7%AB%AF%E6%A9%9F-ccrt-280%E4%B8%AD%E9%96%93%E4%B8%80%E5%85%B1%E6%9C%89320%E5%80%8B%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E9%8D%B5%E6%AF%8F%E5%80%8B%E5%AD%97%E9%8D%B5%E6%9C%8916%E5%80%8B%E5%AD%97%E6%AF%8F%E4%B8%80%E5%80%8B%E5%AD%97%E9%8D%B5%E5%86%8D%E5%B0%8D%E6%87%8916%E5%80%8B%E4%BD%8D%E7%BD%AE%E9%8D%B5%E7%B8%BD%E5%85%B1%E5%8F%AF%E4%BB%A5%E7%B5%84%E5%90%88%E5%87%BA/1254122301286963/|title=Mitac 神通資訊科技 - 神通資科的前身「神通電腦」於1979年出品的第二代中文終端機 (CCRT 280)，中間一共有320個中文字鍵，每個字鍵有16個字，每一個字鍵再對應16個位置鍵，總共可以組合出5000個中文字，實在是非常酷呢！|website=Facebook|date=2016-08-26|access-date=2022-08-26}}</ref> There were also experimental "radical keyboards" with dozens to several hundreds keys. Chinese characters were decomposed into "radicals", each of which was represented by a key.<ref name="xinzhu"/><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://ir.nctu.edu.tw/handle/11536/137495 |author1=謝清俊 |author2=黃永文 |author3=林樹|title=中文字根之分析|journal=Science Bulletin National Chiao-Tung University|volume=6|issue=1|year=1973}}</ref><ref name="zhzn"/> Unwieldy and difficult to use, these keyboards became obsolete after the introduction of Cangjie input method, the first method to use only the standard keyboard and make Chinese [[touch typing]] possible.<ref name="zhzn">{{cite book|url=http://www.open-lit.com/bid=506&id=18353|chapter=三、電腦 倉頡、天龍、零壹、漢卡|title=智慧之旅. 第3部, 炎夏(一九七三-一九九五) |author=朱邦復|publisher=時報出版|year=1995}}</ref>

[[Image:Keyboard layout cangjie.png|thumb|A typical [[keyboard layout]] for the Cangjie method, which is based on the [[keyboard layout#United States|United States keyboard layout]].]]

[[Chu Bong-Foo]] invented a common input method in 1976 with his [[Cangjie input method]], which assigns different "roots" to each key on a standard computer keyboard. With this method, for example, the character 日 is assigned to the A key, and 月 is assigned to B. Typing them together will result in the character 明 ("bright").

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== Categories ==

=== Phonetic-based ===

{{See also|Pinyin input method|Bopomofo|Jyutping}}

[[File:Interface of Weasel Input Method.png|thumb|Interface of a [[Pinyin]] input method, showing the need to choose an appropriate word out of a list of options. The word typed is "Wikipedia" in Mandarin Chinese, but the options shown include (from top to bottom) Wikipedia, [[Uncyclopedia]], Wiki, Crisis, and Rules Violation.]]

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== Software ==

* [[Microsoft Windows#Multilingual support|Microsoft IME]]

* [[GoogleSogou Pinyin]]

*[[Microsoft Windows#Multilingual support|Microsoft IME]]

* [[SogouGoogle Pinyin]]

*[[Google Pinyin]]

== See also ==

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== Notes ==

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