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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Chinese has this system called pinyin, which means:
– a phrase like “你好” (ni hao) (hello) would have its pronunciation spelled out as ‘ n i h a o’, which means that all you have to do is type ‘ n i h a o’ and the Chinese characters would show up on screen. Then you can simply select the Chinese characters when they show up.
You can experiment with this by downloading the mandarin pack too and inputting the pinyins of any Chinese word
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