How do chinese people send a text

triple-M · 05-04-2009 02:07PM #1

recently I saw an asian guy on a bus texting on his phone and then thought to myself,If hes texting in chinese how does he do it on a standard phone without use of the chinese alphabet or symbols???is there some kind of system?
thanks

galwayrush · 05-04-2009 02:09PM

You only need numbers to order a Chinese.:D

ntlbell · 05-04-2009 02:09PM

triple-M wrote: »

recently I saw an asian guy on a bus texting on his phone and then thought to myself,If hes texting in chinese how does he do it on a standard phone without use of the chinese alphabet or symbols???is there some kind of system?
thanks

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biko · 05-04-2009 02:09PM

You can get Chinese symbols on the phone I think

Dont be at yourself · 05-04-2009 02:11PM

For Japanese, you spell the word using their phonetic alphabet or the roman alphabet, and it automagically converts it to chinese characters. The same way they input text with a PC, FYI.

Hagar · 05-04-2009 02:13PM

Chinese sms text.

el rabitos · 05-04-2009 02:13PM

they use chopsticks

triple-M · 05-04-2009 02:13PM

Magnus wrote: »

You can get Chinese symbols on the phone I think

afaik theres thousands of different symbols in their alphabet

Terodil · 05-04-2009 02:13PM

There are several ways to transcribe Chinese. Pinyin is the most standard one these days. It's based on the pronounciation of words. There's only 80 or so unique syllables, combined with the 4 (5) basic tones of Chinese, that gives you around 280 distinguishable syllables. Some Chinese leave it at that and simply type pinyin pure. Others go one step further and find the proper Chinese sign by identifying the appropriate radical (= recurring parts of signs) and the number of additional strokes needed to complete the sign.

triple-M · 05-04-2009 02:15PM

Hagar wrote: »

Chinese sms text.

a ha but what im wondering is how would they type something like that with just the standard 0-9 ,*,# on most phones

arybvtcw0eolkf · 05-04-2009 02:20PM

He was obviously texting someone in Ireland because there are no telephones in China!...

Why?..

Because in China there's too many 'Wings, and there are too many 'Wongs and they're afraid they might....

WING THE WONG NUMBER

/sorry, I'll show myself out!

.

Jumpy · 05-04-2009 02:28PM

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05-04-2009 02:53PM

Jumpy wrote: »

ruv u hny. c u r8r. rol
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I fukn h8 txt spk. Use yr full kb.

Hypocrite! :pac:

flanum · 05-04-2009 03:05PM

erm maybe he was of asian descent and possibly born in ireland? he might not speak chinese, maybe he was texting in english or irish???

Gummy Panda · 05-04-2009 03:08PM

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

For Japanese, you spell the word using their phonetic alphabet or the roman alphabet, and it automagically converts it to chinese characters. The same way they input text with a PC, FYI.

Its Kanji character set i think. I remember reading an article about a new trend of Japanese ebooks been written on mobile phones. The complaint from Japanese literature teachers and such, was that phones have limited Kanji characters so the writer would have to be really imaginative or they'd be dumbing down Japanese literature.

IIRC Kanji, is a Chinese character set used by Japanese more so for books.

AFAIK, Chinese have a nation wide simplified character set.

Mr.Lizard · 05-04-2009 03:14PM

Hagar wrote: »

Chinese sms text.

"Eingang", "Wählen", "Zurück" ? I'll never understand that crazy Chinese language of theirs.

triple-M · 05-04-2009 03:15PM

flanum wrote: »

erm maybe he was of asian descent and possibly born in ireland? he might not speak chinese, maybe he was texting in english or irish???

thats not the point i was only using him as an example......hmmmm i wonder..what does a chinese keyboard look like anyone ??

Hagar · 05-04-2009 03:16PM

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

For Japanese, you spell the word using their phonetic alphabet or the roman alphabet, and it automagically converts it to chinese characters.

Converts it to Chinese characters? That must be very confusing for the poor Japanese.

05-04-2009 03:27PM

triple-M wrote: »

thats not the point i was only using him as an example......hmmmm i wonder..what does a chinese keyboard look like anyone ??

here's one. :eek:

and another with simplified characters.

galwayrush · 05-04-2009 03:30PM

手机短信缩写lol

triple-M · 05-04-2009 03:31PM

Deleted User wrote: »

here's one. :eek:

and another with simplified characters.

wow,thanks,so i take it they dont have a standard straight forward alphabet from A-Z

galwayrush · 05-04-2009 03:37PM

This message is displayed on most Internet searches in China.

这页不可能被显示

(This page cannot be displayed.):rolleyes:

esp www.上.ie

05-04-2009 03:46PM

galwayrush wrote: »

This message is displayed on most Internet searches in China.

这页不可能被显示

(This page cannot be displayed.):rolleyes:

esp www.上.ie

Ah yes, the great firewall of China!

Terodil · 05-04-2009 04:11PM

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Its Kanji character set i think. I remember reading an article about a new trend of Japanese ebooks been written on mobile phones. The complaint from Japanese literature teachers and such, was that phones have limited Kanji characters so the writer would have to be really imaginative or they'd be dumbing down Japanese literature.

IIRC Kanji, is a Chinese character set used by Japanese more so for books.

AFAIK, Chinese have a nation wide simplified character set.

Japanese and Chinese are not comparable.

Japanese has two sets of 'alphabets'. A type of shorthand that can be 'automagically converted' (because it's purely phonetic), and the longhand that shares the same ancestors as the Chinese sign language (they are not identical, however). I can see why Japanese professors would be concerned by the shorthand taking over.

Chinese itself is a collective term. There are 7 major dialects (AFAIK linguists tend to contest that label and would rather prefer 'language' due to the massive differences) in spoken Chinese and 2 major styles of writing. There's the 'old style' which is prevalent in Hong Kong, Taiwan and some bits of Southern China still, and there's the 'simplified style' which is used in most of mainland China. The simplified style was introduced by Mao and his cronies to spread literacy.

For Chinese, there's no magic transcription. Every single word needs to be typed in several steps.

1. type in pinyin (e.g. hua4)
2. select radical (the 'mouth with breath' one in this case)
3. determine remaining number of strokes (6)
4. find the word from a selection menu ([])

Local-womanizer · 05-04-2009 04:13PM

Mairt wrote: »

He was obviously texting someone in Ireland because there are no telephones in China!...

Why?..

Because in China there's too many 'Wings, and there are too many 'Wongs and they're afraid they might....

WING THE WONG NUMBER

/sorry, I'll show myself out!

.

That deserves a thanks for being so bad.....:P

FruitLover · 05-04-2009 04:26PM

If the guy was using a Chinese phone, he might have been entering syllable characters, which get changed into Hanzi. If he was using a European or American phone, he was probably just typing in pinyin.

Gummy Panda wrote: »

The complaint from Japanese literature teachers and such, was that phones have limited Kanji characters

Modern Japanese (and probably Chinese) phones now have a wide variety of Kanji available.

Hagar wrote: »

Converts it to Chinese characters? That must be very confusing for the poor Japanese.

The Japanese use Chinese characters along with simplified symbols for verb modification, etc. "Kanji" literally means "Chinese character".

Terodil wrote: »

I can see why Japanese professors would be concerned by the shorthand taking over.

There's zero chance of that happening. Young people sometimes write certain words in hiragana or katakana, but there's no way Kanji is going to disappear entirely. It's far more efficient (once you've gotten over the initial learning hurdle).

Dont be at yourself · 05-04-2009 04:27PM

Hagar wrote: »

Converts it to Chinese characters? That must be very confusing for the poor Japanese.

Not so much. The Japanese writing system is based largely on kanji, or Chinese characters.

We · 05-04-2009 05:06PM

Terodil wrote: »

There are several ways to transcribe Chinese. Pinyin is the most standard one these days. It's based on the pronounciation of words. There's only 80 or so unique syllables, combined with the 4 (5) basic tones of Chinese, that gives you around 280 distinguishable syllables. Some Chinese leave it at that and simply type pinyin pure. Others go one step further and find the proper Chinese sign by identifying the appropriate radical (= recurring parts of signs) and the number of additional strokes needed to complete the sign.

this

TPD · 05-04-2009 06:08PM

Voice to text software on the phones. Patented, so feck off.

useful_contacts · 05-04-2009 07:02PM

Hagar wrote: »

Chinese sms text.

50 quid for a BJ? what a rip off!!!

admiralofthefleet · 05-04-2009 07:08PM

galwayrush wrote: »

lol

ROR

How do chinese people send a text

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