Chinese keyboards

[b13thy]

just been browsing a few chinese sites and i was wondering what their keyboards look like - are they full of little symbols?

[Zen]

Some pictures here.
http://www.vkeyboard.com/demo.htm

[b13thy]

cheers :)

[Aschenbach]

Most Chinese characters consist of two parts. The Chinese keyboard features the most common 'radicals' (the first part) then you select the full character.

I've used a program called NJStar where you can write the character in roman alphabet (pinyin) then a choice of the most common characters appears with 1, 2, 3.. options etc for you to select.

Japanese uses three kinds of characters. One of which (Katakana?) comprises of a few dozen characters and is used particularly by Japanese children and for foreign words.