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怎麼打字? How to type 子 and 字 using Hanglie, Array input method (行列输入法 háng​liè shū​rù​fǎ)? 子 Pinyin: zi/zi5/zi Jyutping: zi2 字Pinyin: zì/zi4 Jyutping: zi4 These are easy to type with pinyin (and for that matter Jyutping, though I'm not learning Cantonese currently). I know the radical and stroke order for these two characters for writing, I also know how to type 了GD. I would have thought it would merely require the same input as 了 with the A key 一, GDA, but it seems not to be the case.
May 28, 2017 8:00 AM
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Hi, I never heard of Hang Lie Shu Ru Fa, do you mean Stroke input method, or Five-Stroke? No one use Stroke input anymore. Pinyin input is good enough.
May 28, 2017
Found out: "Found out it as 子gf1, and 字ngf1 (字 shortcut is n5). Hanglie is used for Traditional Characters. It's like Wubi which is used in the Mainland, but that system was intended for simplified characters. Hanglie uses (like Wubi) uses radicals and stokes as its input method. I guess Hong Kong people don't use it because it came from Taiwan and they already use Cangjie already. https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A1%8C%E5%... https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A1%8C%E5%88%9... https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guide_to_Array_input"
June 10, 2017
Why I use Hanglie, Array Input method. (行列输入法 háng​liè shū​rù​fǎ) It's similar to Wubi input method. However, it's used for traditional characters, whereas Wubi was meant for simplified, though Wubi can also type traditional it's more difficult as the designers didn't have traditional characters in mind as much. The advantage of Hanglie / Array input is that you can type traditional Chinese characters without using Pinyin or Jyutping. Advantage 1# This is important if you're writing in another Chinese language with no phonetic input method. Eg. Minnanese, Wenzhounese... Shanghainese.etc 你好嗎? Nǐ hǎo ma? Shanghainese 儂好伐 Pinyin: Nóng hǎo fá, Shanghainese Transliteration (no official system): nong'ho,va'. etc. The characters and pronunciation are different, so it will be extremely inconvenient to use Pinyin/Jyutping to think and type in another language. Advantage 2# If you only type in Pinyin/Jyutping and not write Chinese characters, over time you can forget how to write them. These shape based methods, help you memorise radical, and strokes, how they go together and what order they are written in Hanglie (and other shape based methods) feels like writing. Pinyin and Jyutping feel like talking. Advantage 3# Unlike Phonetic methods, shape methods are more precise, leaving less room for the computer to guess what you're typing. Thus, you are less likely to make mistakes in typing than pinyin. Advantage 4# Sheer speed. People who use shape-based methods such as Cangjie, Dayi, Wubi, Hanglie etc. have been said to type at rapid speeds compared to pinyin typers.
May 28, 2017
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