How do Chinese people text?

Jun 19, 2019
8:57:13pm

Mister P All-American

No, this isn't a racist joke premise. With so many characters in their written language, how do they efficiently put that on a phone screen for texting?

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How do Chinese people text?

Mister P

6/19/19 8:57pm

RE: How do Chinese people text?

scootsy

6/19/19 8:58pm

RE: How do Chinese people text?

Pee Wee Reese

6/19/19 9:00pm

Bruce Lee?

TNT

6/19/19 9:00pm

The characters are made up of various “radicals”

jkccoug

6/19/19 9:14pm

With their fingers

Bob Vance

6/19/19 9:22pm

咁你而家睇唔睇到我寫乜？

GoodGuyGary1

6/19/19 9:50pm

Well that was rude

TNT

6/19/19 9:54pm

RE:

Lip Gallagher

6/19/19 10:26pm

Mods!!!

CougarThug

6/20/19 5:30am

Pinyin, which is then converted to characters

chilango

6/19/19 9:55pm

Do they have phones that use bopomofo?

CougsBeatU

6/19/19 9:59pm

there is for TW, but mainland hasn't used bpmf in 50 years, no one knows what it is

ChinaFan

6/19/19 11:49pm

I find it easier/faster to text in Japanese than English.

ekiben

6/19/19 10:46pm

Do you use hiragana/katakana?

chilango

6/19/19 11:08pm

Kanji fool

the_byu_flash

6/19/19 11:45pm

Standard English alphabet keyboard but as you type it gives kanji hiragana and

ekiben

6/20/19 2:28pm

there are several input methods for them, I use pinyin which is a phonetic spelling and then select the character

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