Type in Chinese On-line

• You type pinyin in the large textbox.
  
  • You type NOTHING and highlight NOTHING in either the one-line textbox or the list below it.
    
  • No need to type tone marks or umlauts with vowels.
    
  • Even though no cursor shows, you still should type
    
  • you can type full words such as "Xiansheng".
    
• In theone line box, the current pinyin of interest will show.
  
• If you cannot see the target character because there are more than 10, use PgUp and PgDn to scroll.
  
• Type the number of the character of interest and proceed to the next character.
  
• All punctuation will type the Chinese equivalent of it.
  
  • I.e. all punctuation occupies a chinese character square.
    
  • E.g. the period will type the ideographic full stop circle.
    
  • To type the special, list separation comma, use the "\" key.
    
• If you want to type an ascii (i.e. non-Chinese) symbol, tap your control key to toggle the checkbox at the bottom.
  
• The text in the large textbox is in unicode so you can copy and paste to M Sword, your e-mail, or any other place to paste unicode text.