Comments on: Sending Chinese SMS on iPhone

By: Cui

Cui — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:16:20 +0000

Hi,Joanna First welcome to Beijing, China. and hope you enjoy the time. Basically there's two ways of typing Chinese in either computer or mobile phone: PinYin(拼音) and Stroke(笔划). To use PinYin IME(Input MEthod), you have to know how to read the Chinese character; To use Stroke IME, you have to know how to write the character, based on the specific rules defined by the IME itself. I googled and got this. A lot of Chinese-learing tools there. You can also use this online dictionary website to find out how a Chinese character is spelled. You can even try to input Chinese by in the Stroke way. A good start point, isn't? Google has also some other findings here, fyi. After you have an idea of how the IME works, there's no secret in writing Chinese sms on the phone then. As long as there's one working Chinese IME for the phone, people can be able to enter Chinese characters on the phone, anywhere the characters can be accepted, like contact name, address and sms as well. Hope my answer helps. Cui

By: aselniczka

aselniczka — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:30:51 +0000

Hey!
I spend my holidays in Beijing and I watch everything here – people, streets, life. Two days ago it struck me, that I can’t imagine, how do Chinese people write sms’. I know it might sound like a stupid question, but I never learned Chinese language, never had anything in common with it. I read in a guide book, that to be able to communicate, to read paper, a man needs to know about 3000 symbols. How does it work with cell phones?
I would really appreciate the answer and not to be considered lame )

Best regards,
Joanna from Poland.

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