How do Chinese people read their characters? .this is a SERIOUS question. I have been trying to learn Hanzi?
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I'm working and studying in Taiwan, where we use traditional Chinese characters. Recognition was a serious problem for me until I started learning how to write the characters. Yes, I still can't see all the strokes, but somehow I can recognize even the most intricate characters far easier after practicing to write them. Guessing from radicals are very dangerous, because the characters with more that 15 strokes often have more than one radical in them (or so it seems to someone learning the language). You could guess totally wrong if you think you see a radical, but it's not really the correct radical but a set of strokes similar to some radicals.\nGood luck! I know it's not so easy, but try the writing bit. It works for me.
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In your web browser (Explorer/Firefox), click "View" on the toolbar and go to "Encoding" or "Character Encoding". From there you should be able to find Chinese under "More...". \n\nThe type of Chinese encoding you will need depends on the email, so just try all of them until you get to one that works.
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"Why are Chinese people's eyes like they are ?"\nOK ! So why are your eyes like the the way they are ?\n\nIncidentally, note the missing apostrophe .
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Find English names in Chinese calligraphy:\nwww.chineseinkonline.com\n\nGeneral English-to-Chinese:\nhttp://www.chinese-dictionary.org/
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Since Chinese is a picture-nased language, showing children how particular words look like what they mean, may be a fun way to teach. \n\nI bought a book titled 'Fun With Chinese Characters' from a bookshop here in Australia and it certainly took a fun approach to the Chinese written language.  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1932457003/sr=8-1/qid=1151222903/ref=sr_1_1/102-0294955-0287366?ie=UTF8\nThe cover of the book itself shows you for example, how the Chinese word for 'hand' was created based on the image of the hand.\nI recommend this book, and there are others which take the same approach on Amazon.com.\n\nYou can find many examples of these words versus pictures in this Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character\nOf course, not every Chinese character is a pictograph - but hopefully by getting students familiar with writing the little radicals that make up the words, it won't seem so hard.\n\nHopefully you'll find some good books to help you and that your students and you yourself have fun!
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The following link will not only help you in reading but also typing in chinese
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There is no Chinese letter H. They have there own way of writing words but not letters. Why do you want to know that? Was it i word you are trying to spell or for a tatoo or something.
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For word processing, you take advantage of the fact that Chinese characters are built out of a finite set of components (called radicals and phonetics) and you sort of build each character out of these, one at a time.  Other systems have you type in a phonetic equivalent.  The software then prompts you with a list of up to 16 or so possible characters that is pronounced that way.  Chinese has a lot of homophones, and does not have a phonetic character set the way Japanese does.\n\nBefore the invention of the word processor, Chinese had typewriters.  They were 2 or 3 times the size of an old IBM Selectric.  They had a giant tray of metal squares (chops), each of which had a single character reverse-engraved on it.  The typist had to find the character they wanted, lower a claw-like grabber onto the square, then bring it to platen of the typewriter and strike the paper with it, then put the square back in the hole where it had been and move on to the next character.\n\n11 characters a miniute was considered speedy. Until PC's with a lot of memory became affordable (early 1990s), there was no such thing as desktop publishing, and things like investment newsletters were written up in longhand, then taken to a " typing shop" to be typed up.
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Interesting question:\nNumber of Chinese characters\nThe question of how many characters there are is still the subject of debate. In the 18th century, European scholars claimed the total tally to be about 80,000. This number, however, is thought to be exaggerated as the character count varies by dictionary and its comprehensiveness. For example, the Kangxi Dictionary lists about 40,000 characters, while the modern Zhonghua Zihai lists in excess of 80,000 (the most comprehensive Japanese kanji dictionary Daikanwa Jiten lists 50,000 entries). One reason for the overwhelming number of characters is due to the existence of rarely-occurring variant and obscure characters (many of which are unused, even in Classical Chinese). Note, however, that no two characters are ever contextually identical.\n\nThe large number of Chinese characters is due to their logographic nature — for every morpheme a glyph is required, and variant characters have at times developed for the same morpheme. Furthermore, in the centuries after the standardisation of the Chinese script by Qin Shi Huang to the zhuanshu, the literati multiplied the total stock of characters by modifying extant characters à la the 形聲字 xíngshēngzì method—by altering the radical of a homonym character to provide a distinct glyph for either new words or words that had till then been homographs. It has also been claimed that the sheer number of characters is used as a way to separate scholars from the ordinary, and perhaps even to keep certain texts from being read by all but the most scholarly.\n\nIt is usually said that about 3,000 characters are needed for basic literacy in Chinese (for example, to read a Chinese newspaper), and a well-educated person will know well in excess of 4,000 to 5,000 characters. Note that it is not necessary to know a character for every known word of Chinese, as the majority of modern Chinese words, unlike their Ancient Chinese and Middle Chinese counterparts, are bimorphemic compounds, i.e. they are made up of two, usually common, characters. There are 6763 code points in GB2312, an early version of the national encoding standard used in the People's Republic of China. GB18030, the modern, mandatory standard, has a much higher number. The Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi proficiency test covers approximately 5000 characters.\n\nThe Chinese Standard Interchange Code (CNS11643)—the official national encoding standard—supports 48027 characters, while the most widely-used encoding scheme, BIG-5, supports only 13053.\n\nIn addition, there is a large corpus of dialect characters, which are not used in formal written Chinese but represent colloquial terms in non-Mandarin Chinese spoken forms. One such variety is Written Cantonese, in widespread use in Hong Kong even for certain formal documents, due to the former British colonial administration's recognition of Cantonese for use for official purposes. In Taiwan, there is also an informal body of characters used to represent the spoken Min Nan dialect.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_alphabet
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are you expecting to see an answer in Chinese?  I don't think this application supports it (in the English version).
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They certainly are! Even my daughter's school teachers once used the wrong kanji on a news letter...! (My Japanese husband pointed it out, and he still hasn't forgotten or forgiven it!!)\n\nWith Japanese typing it's easy to select the wrong kanji (glyph as you call it,) because you type in the pronunciation, then press the space bar until the correct option comes up! I'll give you an example, just in case your computer can display Japanese fonts!\ntou\nとう\n塔\n等\n問う\n棟\n党\n... I could go on, but I won't!! But it's easy to select the wrong character, either through ignorance, or by mistake!\n; )\n\nIn addition to that, anyone can type the wrong letter, or accidentally miss out a letter - or even a whole word! Japanese and Chinese are no different! If someone pressed one wrong letter on their keyboard when typing 'hello' / 'good afternoon', it could easily turn from\nこんにちは (konnichiwa)\nto\nこんのちは (konnochiwa)\nor\nじょんにちは (jonnichiwa)\nmaking it total nonsense!\n\nIf you type the wrong letters and then try to use the space bar to get the kanji you want it's a total nightmare!! But at least you spot the mistake - usually!\n; )\n\nYou would expect to find spelling errors all over the place, along with grammatical errors ... especially on the Yahoo! Japan Chiebukuro site (Answers!)
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Hehe... You are so funny dude...=)\n\nWell I agree... Try remove the application on your Control Panel on Add or Remove Program.. Then download a new one.\n\nIt's worth it. Unless you want to write in Chinese again. Haha!
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No, in terms of script and language no.\n\nThe Japanese Writing Language in whole consists of 3 different sets of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.  Though Hiragana and Katakana are basically the same phonetic letters, they are spelled differently in their sets to distinguish original words from borrowed words.\n\nHiragana is the curved phonetic script that is used for most of the language for japanese-domestic words like you (anata) or me (watashi) (note: "anata" and "watashi" are romanji, romanized-letter style of dictating japanese, not as great as usage of the hira/kata style). \n\nKatakana is the straight phonetic script that is used for "borrowed words" from other countries (mostly USA) and sounded onomatopeicly, like hotel would be "ho-te-ru" and the US would be "A-Me-Ri-Ka".\n\nKanji are ideograph characters that are borrowed from Chinese characters (in the Simplified Chinese set, not Traditional). They stand to be used as substitutes for words in japanese that are objects or ideas for the most part. (The symbol for Tokyo 東京 is really the kanji for "Too-Ky-Yoo".) However, Hiragana and Katakana can be used in place of Kanji with no misunderstanding. Kanji is more substitute fillers.\n\nSidebar: Hirugana are the little scripts that are beside Kanji words in educational books. This helps the student familiarize themselves with the sounding of the word and memorization of the Kanji.\n\n\n\nBy Contrast, Chinese Characters, or Hanzi, is made of of nothing but tens of thousands of ideograph characters. Originally, the characters were pictures that evolved into pictographs and eventually into ideographs, for the meaning.  A meaning or work could be as simple as one character (car=車, or che) or as long as the meaning goes (WMD = 大規模毀滅性武器 daguimo huimiexing wu qi). Hanzi is all about memorizing, to know the words. But the characters do not give you an idea of what the word sounds like. Thats where Pinyin and Zhuyin come in.\n\n\nOriginally, to understand what the character sounds is, one would use the Zhuyin phonetic system. Like the hiragana phonetic system (where all script letters represent sounds like ka, no, ru), the Zhuyin (or BoPoMoFo) system is script letters that represent sounds that are used to make up the combined sound of a letter. (mom would be ㄇㄚㄇㄚˋ, or MAMa)\nEarly school children were originally taught this system first to familiarize themselves with the sounds, and towards high school just memorize the sounds that go with the character (to the point of innate skills). Taiwan and certain countries still embrace this method limitedly, because alot use Pinyin instead.\n\nPinyin is a different school of chinese phonetics. It uses roman letters instead of Zhuyin script to garner the sounds (similar to Romanji for japanese). This was developed so more of the West would be able to learn chinese without trying to use the Zhuyin system. (like Mom would be Mama, sorta).  Mainland China embraces the Pinyin system (as well as simplified text, where Kanji most resembles).\n\n\nIn summary, Japanese and Chinese do not share the same script, but originally, like most SouthEast Asian countries (*cough* Korea) Japan borrowed a large portion of the characters from China and heavily evolved it into the hiragana, katakana, and kanji sets of today. Chinese still stems into two schools of writing, with the Simplified Hanzi, and the Traditional Hanzi.
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Set up your font into Chinese (Traditional or Simple) first. \nThey are already there in Microsoft XP. \n\nWe input Chinese characters with many different ways. \nSuch as pictograph (one of the historical structure classifications of the written character), Romen phonetic transcription, or Chinese own phonetic ㄅ.ㄆ.ㄇ.ㄈ....ㄦ. \n\nEach of them have their own sound, combine 2~3 of them and collocate them with 5 tongues " －　ˊ　v　ˋ　。"　to　make a character. Chinese phonetic imput is the most popular and easiest one now.
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Erm... this is weird.  The last character is not Chinese, it looks Korean.  Sorry but I don't understand the characters except for the first one, 談.  It means "to talk about / to discuss".
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Try the link below.  I don't know whether you're trying to translate English to Chinese or just look up Chinese characters by their sounds as typed in in English letters, but this site can do both.
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Chinese (Pinyin) and Japanese have syllabyls as well. Type in the alphabets of the cound and the words come out. You just have to choose each word from there. \n\nFor example, the sound "bao"in chinese can mean bun, run, hug, explode, thin etc...typing bao just gives you the options of choosing the word. Japanese is even easier as it can be written in alphabets...\n\nMore mind boggling is the fact that the same word in Chinese and Japanese can mean different things even though it is the same character!