Chinese has many different input methods. For example, in Taiwan most keyboards have the symbols for 4 different input methods printed on them: English/Pinyin o

Chinese has many different input methods. For example, in Taiwan most keyboards have the symbols for 4 different input methods printed on them: English/Pinyin on the top left, Zhuyin on the top right, Cangjie on the lower left, and Dayi on the lower right. The top two are phonetic, and the bottom two are symbolic. Chinese input methods typically require a sequence of key-presses and then a selection from a menu of matching characters, with the most common matches first. Multi-character sequences can be entered without making a choice until the end, in which case the most likely n-grams come first. Most people in Taiwan learn phonetic (Zhuyin) in school, which is very easy, as long as you know standard pronunciation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Taiwan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Taiwan