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How do I use Chinese input on Mac?
On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Keyboard, then click Input Sources. Click the Add button , select “Chinese, Traditional,” “Chinese, Simplified,” or “Cantonese, Traditional” (on the left), then select an input source in the list on the right.
How do you input Chinese characters?
Go to “Clock, Language, and Region” and select “Change keyboards or other input methods”. Click the Change Keyboards button. Click the Add button. In the new window, navigate to the Chinese section and choose the character set that best applies to you.
How do I install a Chinese Pinyin keyboard?
Enabling Chinese Pinyin for Traditional Chinese
- Open your control panel.
- Under “Clock, Language, and Region” click on “Change keyboards or other input methods.”
- Then click the “Change keyboards…” button.
- Then click the “Add…” button.
What is Microsoft bopomofo?
Microsoft Bopomofo also does Pinyin, but in the infinite wisdom of Microsoft the name was changed from New Phonetic to this (微軟注音 in Chinese) in Win 8. It offers the ability to enter Pinyin with or without tone numbers and phrase association, and includes tools like the IME Pad for lookup by radical and stroke count.
How do you type Chinese on a Mac trackpad?
On your Mac, click the Input menu in the menu bar, then choose the Handwriting input source you added. Optionally, press Control-Shift-Space bar. If your Mac has a Touch Bar, and you customized the Control Strip by adding the Handwriting button , tap the button to open the Trackpad Handwriting window.
How do I add Chinese characters to Pinyin in Word for Mac?
If you want to use phonetic guide, you need to change the language settings for Office for mac first.
- From the Word menu bar, click “Word” -> “Preferences…”.
- Choose “East Asian Languages”
- Change the language to “Simplified Chinese/Traditional Chinese” depends on which phonetic guide you use.
- Restart Word 2016.
How do you write Pinyin with tones on Mac?
The default shortcuts are ^ (control) + space bar to go forward, and ^ (control) + ⌥ (option) + space bar to go backward through the list. You’ve added the ABC – Extended keyboard, and selected it as your input method. Now you’re ready to type tones marks over your vowels.