{"id":43891,"date":"2014-03-24T10:31:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T18:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/?page_id=43891"},"modified":"2014-03-24T10:33:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T18:33:54","slug":"cantonese-input","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/chinese-tools\/cantonese-input\/","title":{"rendered":"Cantonese Input"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many ways to input Chinese characters for Cantonese speakers.<br \/>\nHere you can find some online Cantonese input using Jyutping or English.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cantoneseinput.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/cantoneseinput.com\/<\/a> where you can input Chinese characters with Jyutping or English. \u00a0For example you can type <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E9%AC%BC\">\u9b3c<\/a> by input &#8220;ghost&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Jyutping input for Chinese characters at MDBG: \u00a0 Type Chinese with Jyutping.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdbg.net\/chindict\/webime2.php?ime=jyutping_trad\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mdbg.net\/chindict\/webime2.php?ime=jyutping_trad<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Even though Google doesn&#8217;t believe that Cantonese is a bigger language (60 million in 2007) than <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dutch_language\" target=\"_blank\">Dutch<\/a> (about 23 millioin native speakers), they have a pretty good Cantonese input for Google Translate, which forces people to believe that Cantonese is just Chinese. \u00a0 Google Translate&#8217;s wrong concept always lead to lots of funny Google traslation from Cantonese Chinese characters.<br \/>\nFor all those who want to urge Google to add Cantonese translate to their translate tool at http:\/\/translate.google.com, please yell: &#8220;Google, add Cantonese translation now!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/#zh-CN\/en\/%E6%88%91%E5%86%87%E9%8C%A2%E3%80%82\" target=\"_blank\">Google Cantonese Input<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how you can input Chinese characters with Google Cantonese Input: \u00a0for example:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E6%88%91%E5%86%87%E9%8C%A2\">\u6211\u5187\u9322<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0you&#8217;ll need to type: ngo mou chin \u00a0(actually, \u00a0when you type n and 1.<a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E6%88%91\">\u6211<\/a>(ngo) pops up as the 1st choice, \u00a0and you only need to press space to select it. \u00a0Then you can continue to type mo and you can see <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E5%86%87\">\u5187<\/a> when you type just mo and you can select 3 for the character. Type chin for <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E9%8C%A2\">\u9322<\/a> and you may select 1 for the character after you input ch.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video to show you how good is the Cantonese input by Google:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cJXsyEIa4K4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For this Cantonese input tool, they did a good job. \u00a0However, we still want to urge Google: \u00a0Add Cantonese translation!<\/p>\n<p>Related: I did introduce <a href=\"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/cantonese-input\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google&#8217;s universal Cantonese input<\/a> (not just at Google Translate) in early 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many ways to input Chinese characters for Cantonese speakers. Here you can find some online Cantonese input using Jyutping or English. &nbsp; http:\/\/cantoneseinput.com\/ where you can input Chinese characters with Jyutping or English. \u00a0For example you can type <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E9%AC%BC\">\u9b3c<\/a> by input &#8220;ghost&#8221; Jyutping input for Chinese characters at MDBG: \u00a0 Type Chinese with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"parent":161,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43930,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43891\/revisions\/43930"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}