Enter Simplified or

Use the QWERTY keyboard to enter Pinyin for Chinese

Traditional Chinese Pinyin

characters. As you type, suggested Chinese characters appear.

 

Tap a suggestion to choose it, or continue entering Pinyin to

 

see more options.

 

If you keep entering Pinyin without spaces, sentence

 

suggestions appear.

 

 

Enter Chinese Cangjie

Use the keyboard to build Chinese characters from

 

the component Cangjie keys. As you type, suggested

 

Chinese characters appear. Tap a character to choose it,

 

or continue typing up to five total components to see

 

more character options.

 

 

Enter Simplified Chinese Stroke

Use the keypad to build Chinese characters using up to five

(Wubi Hua)

strokes in the correct writing sequence: from left to right, top

 

to bottom, outside to inside, and from inside to the closing

 

stroke (for example, the Chinese character should begin

 

with the vertical stroke).

 

As you type, suggested Chinese characters appear (the most

 

commonly used characters appear first). Tap a character to

 

choose it.

 

If you’re not sure of the correct stroke, enter an asterisk (*).

 

To see more character options, type another stroke, or scroll

 

through the character list.

 

Tap the 匹配 key to show only characters that match exactly

 

what you typed. For example, if you type 一一 and tap 匹配 ,

 

the less commonly used appears as an exact match.

 

 

Enter Traditional Chinese Zhuyin

Use the keyboard to enter Zhuyin letters. As you type,

 

suggested Chinese characters appear. Tap a suggestion to

 

choose it, or continue entering Zhuyin letters to see more

 

options. After you type an initial letter, the keyboard changes

 

to show more letters.

 

If you keep entering Zhuyin without spaces, sentence

 

suggestions appear.

 

 

Enter handwritten Simplified or

Use the touchpad to enter Chinese characters with your finger.

Traditional Chinese

As you write character strokes, iPad shows matching characters

 

in a list, with the closest match at the top. When you choose

 

a character, likely follow-on characters appear in the list as

 

additional choices.

 

You can get some complex characters by writing two or more

 

component characters. For example, enter (fish), then

 

(bristle), to get (partial name of Hong Kong International

 

Airport), which appears in the character list with an arrow next

 

to it. Tap the character to replace the characters you entered.

 

With Simplified Chinese handwriting, Roman characters are

 

also recognized.

 

 

Convert between Simplified and

Select the character or characters you want to convert, then

Traditional Chinese

tap Replace.

 

 

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