How do chinese or japanese PC keyboards work when they have thousands of different characters

Question

How do chinese or japanese PC keyboards work when they have thousands of different characters

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Answer 1

They both have a phonetic typing system. You would type the word out phonetically and there would be a popup with a list of matching characters to choose like a phone autocomplete.

[Here’s a video of the Japanese version in action](https://youtu.be/g3xmRCrbLVU)