Some Chinese languages like Mandarin have thousands of characters, so how does a keyboard work considering there’s only a finite amount of characters they can use?
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In Japanese, as you write the letters from the keyboard get converted into hiragana (a syllabic writing system, thus phonetic). Contextually a drop down menu appears with ideograms/words suggestions for said syllable or group of syllables. You choose one of the options (using the spacebar to select and enter to confirm) and the word finally appears in the text.
In many cases (grammar particles, suffixes/prefixes or other cases) you just directly choose the hiragana syllables.
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