Since dozens of Chinese characters can share the same latinized phonetic spelling, the ordinary QWERTY keyboard alone is incredibly inefficient. A smart, localized keyboard app can save a lot of ...

Type “a” on a QWERTY keyboard hooked up to a Chinese computer, on the other hand, and the computer is off anticipating the next characters. Typing in Chinese requires mediation from a layer of ...

Particularly, how do you match the tens of thousands of Chinese characters to the 26 letters on a QWERTY keyboard? The first attempt was vastly different from the keyboard apps today, and centered ...

Chinese characters, or hanzi ... Android devices can use the Swype keyboard ...

And on top of it all, Chinese characters are the oldest continuously-used system of writing in the world. So how the hell does it work on a modern computer keyboard? We checked out this Slate ...