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Apple Chinese Language Kit User Manual

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Chapter 3

5

In the selection palette, find the character you want to enter and click it to enter it in the
document or input palette. (See “Using the Selection Palette” on page 45.)

6

If you are using the input palette, press Return or Enter to enter the character.
For example, press the following keys to enter the characters for “Apple Computer”:

Using Simplified Pinyin

The Pinyin input mode lets you use Simplified Pinyin to enter common sound combinations
by pressing a single key. To use this feature, first select the Use Simplified Pinyin option in
the Preferences dialog box. (See “Selecting General Preferences” on page 48.)
To enter a character, press keys to spell the character phonetically using the standard Pinyin
system, but press single keys for the sound combinations shown in the table.

English
word

Chinese
character

Pinyin

Tone

Apple

ping

2

guo

3

Computer

dian

4

nao

3

To enter this sound:

Press this key:

ch

i

sh

u

zh

a

ai

l

an

j

ang

h

ao

k

en

f

eng

g

ing

y

ong

s

ü

v