How many letters chinese language has?
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One of my friends said something unusual, I didn't believe it. I'm here to ask, if there is any one aware of that: How many letters the Chinese language has?
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How many letters the Chinese language has?
AFAIK, there is no ONE chinese language, so, we should firstly know which one we talk about. also, AFAIK, the symbols are not "letters" but ideograms... but i'm sure some of the chinese around there will tell more
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Hamed Mosavi wrote:
How many letters the Chinese language has?
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Acceptable! Thank you so much. My friend said it has several hundred! He said there are letters that is equal to a complete word. I quickly asked, 'Several hundred!, How do they use computers and what type of keyboards do they have?!':-D
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Acceptable! Thank you so much. My friend said it has several hundred! He said there are letters that is equal to a complete word. I quickly asked, 'Several hundred!, How do they use computers and what type of keyboards do they have?!':-D
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}You can get software that basically translates phonetic words typed on a regular qwerty keyboard into the correct symbol
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One of my friends said something unusual, I didn't believe it. I'm here to ask, if there is any one aware of that: How many letters the Chinese language has?
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
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One of my friends said something unusual, I didn't believe it. I'm here to ask, if there is any one aware of that: How many letters the Chinese language has?
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
}"The entire Chinese character corpus since antiquity comprises well over 20,000 characters, of which only roughly 10,000 are now commonly in use." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language[^]
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You can get software that basically translates phonetic words typed on a regular qwerty keyboard into the correct symbol
-- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
Yes, but the problem here is how to place hundreds of letters on an standard 102 keys, keyboard where many already used for numbers and other symbols. Using Ctrl, Shift, Alt to make more room is an option, but even using these, several hundred is too much. Now it's not important, because the problem was totally wrong. No problem exists at all! But it was interesting that there's such applications.
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"The entire Chinese character corpus since antiquity comprises well over 20,000 characters, of which only roughly 10,000 are now commonly in use." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language[^]
Well:confused: This is what exactly my friend said! So the question arises again: How do they use keyboard? How they arrange 10,000 letters on a keyboard?!
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Acceptable! Thank you so much. My friend said it has several hundred! He said there are letters that is equal to a complete word. I quickly asked, 'Several hundred!, How do they use computers and what type of keyboards do they have?!':-D
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what type of keyboards do they have
Yeah, that's a bit of a problem in China; administration is very slow, due to the 500 people it requires to type a letter on a keyboard with 20,127 keys. I heard that they are trying to build a robot to replace these people that would hit the keys automatically. But they first need to build a software, and since they are using a plain Chinese compiler, it takes ages.
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Yes, but the problem here is how to place hundreds of letters on an standard 102 keys, keyboard where many already used for numbers and other symbols. Using Ctrl, Shift, Alt to make more room is an option, but even using these, several hundred is too much. Now it's not important, because the problem was totally wrong. No problem exists at all! But it was interesting that there's such applications.
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
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cout<<"I love programming.";
}Hamed Mosavi wrote:
it's not important
Precisely.
Hamed Mosavi wrote:
several hundred is too much.
I just sent a letter off to the Chinese government asking them to reduce the complexity of their alphabet by adopting the new metric alphabet. It only has ten letters.
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Hamed Mosavi wrote:
what type of keyboards do they have
Yeah, that's a bit of a problem in China; administration is very slow, due to the 500 people it requires to type a letter on a keyboard with 20,127 keys. I heard that they are trying to build a robot to replace these people that would hit the keys automatically. But they first need to build a software, and since they are using a plain Chinese compiler, it takes ages.
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Well:confused: This is what exactly my friend said! So the question arises again: How do they use keyboard? How they arrange 10,000 letters on a keyboard?!
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}They probably use morphemes (mentioned in the article), and let the computer help in picking the right symbol. I just don't know. :) The Japanese language also uses Chinese symbols - a.k.a. Kanji in the Japanese language. Then they also have three other "alphabets", which they use in conjunction with Kanji. Two of the alphabets*, Hiragana and Katakana, are of Japanese origin, while Romaji is the roman alphabet. When typing on a Japanese computer, you use Hiragana and Katakana to spell the words. The computer will then provide you with a list of possible Kanji. I suppose this Chinese input works the same way, but using those special morpheme symbols. * It's a bunch of syllables, and not really an alphabet per se. It serves the same purpose as our alphabet does though.
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Well:confused: This is what exactly my friend said! So the question arises again: How do they use keyboard? How they arrange 10,000 letters on a keyboard?!
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
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cout<<"I love programming.";
}fingers. just like everybody else does. :-D
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
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Yes, but the problem here is how to place hundreds of letters on an standard 102 keys, keyboard where many already used for numbers and other symbols. Using Ctrl, Shift, Alt to make more room is an option, but even using these, several hundred is too much. Now it's not important, because the problem was totally wrong. No problem exists at all! But it was interesting that there's such applications.
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
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cout<<"I love programming.";
}The most common characters are on the keyboard Less common characters are built up over multiple key strokes from glyphs (character parts)
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Well:confused: This is what exactly my friend said! So the question arises again: How do they use keyboard? How they arrange 10,000 letters on a keyboard?!
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
}Hamed Mosavi wrote:
How do they use keyboard?
With their tongues.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
Well:confused: This is what exactly my friend said! So the question arises again: How do they use keyboard? How they arrange 10,000 letters on a keyboard?!
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
}I have studied Japanese many years ago. What I found was that in Japanese, there was two sets of a basic alphabet Hiragana and Katakana. Then there was the pictograms that were called Kanga. You could use the alphabet to write out the word or use the pictogram. I saw a program that would allow the user to type in the letters and it would convert them into the pictogram. I am not sure if Chinese works the exact same way, but I think it would be close.
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fingers. just like everybody else does. :-D
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
:laugh: The most obvious answer! :-D
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Hamed Mosavi wrote:
How do they use keyboard?
With their tongues.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001oh ya! the problem solved. Thank you.
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Well:confused: This is what exactly my friend said! So the question arises again: How do they use keyboard? How they arrange 10,000 letters on a keyboard?!
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
}Hamed Mosavi wrote:
How do they use keyboard?
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They probably use morphemes (mentioned in the article), and let the computer help in picking the right symbol. I just don't know. :) The Japanese language also uses Chinese symbols - a.k.a. Kanji in the Japanese language. Then they also have three other "alphabets", which they use in conjunction with Kanji. Two of the alphabets*, Hiragana and Katakana, are of Japanese origin, while Romaji is the roman alphabet. When typing on a Japanese computer, you use Hiragana and Katakana to spell the words. The computer will then provide you with a list of possible Kanji. I suppose this Chinese input works the same way, but using those special morpheme symbols. * It's a bunch of syllables, and not really an alphabet per se. It serves the same purpose as our alphabet does though.
let me tell you something about chinese.first a chinese character rabal have two ways when writing : one way is that it depends on its form,the other is that it depend on its pronunciation. the first way: there is only 26 letters in english.all english words are made up of 26 letters.but in chinese there are hundreds of "letters".it have three comfigurations like : left and right,up and down and surround like 国,围 and so on.it also have basal stroke like :horizontal(一,二),upright,bend to left,bend to right and so on.one chinese character is made up of one or some elements before.they also look the letters like horizontal as horizontal in writing.so it put the same stroke in the same key,like this :一,王 are in the "G","二","土"are in the"F","三"is in the "D".here "一,二,三"are like the chinese letters in chinese characters writing.all chinese letters are made up of these "letters".these letters are put in the 26 keys.when you knock some keys,it will appear some similar chinese characters,so you should make a choose.because some keys means some chinese letters may compose some similar chinese characters. this is the way by its form. the second way is that it depend on its pronunciation like english very much. in this way chinese only have 26 english letters too.some letters can compose a character in english,some letters can compose some chinese character pronunciation.you know there are hundreds of chinese characters........like the way choose one from some before,you will write out a chinese character in this way.that is all.ohh,i am tired.sorry to my pull english lever......
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Yes, but the problem here is how to place hundreds of letters on an standard 102 keys, keyboard where many already used for numbers and other symbols. Using Ctrl, Shift, Alt to make more room is an option, but even using these, several hundred is too much. Now it's not important, because the problem was totally wrong. No problem exists at all! But it was interesting that there's such applications.
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
}Hamed Mosavi wrote:
Yes, but the problem here is how to place hundreds of letters on an standard 102 keys, keyboard
Make them very small. :rolleyes:
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