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Chinese to Pinyin converter. This Chinese Keyboard enables you to easily type Chinese online without installing Chinese keyboard.You can use your computer keyboard or mouse to type Chinese letters with this virtual keyboard. Pressing Esc on the Chinese keyboard layout will toggle the mouse input between virtual QWERTY keyboard and virtual Chinese keyboard. Using a keyboard shortcut is much faster to switch the current language than doing so manually through the keyboard input menu, this is really probably the fastest way to toggle keyboards and languages in OS X. Speaking of that input menu, let’s enable one final option that’s really handy.

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In order to resolve this issue follow these steps:

1. In the Cortana box type ‘Region’.
2. Click on ‘Region and Language Settings’.
3. Click on ‘Add a Language’.
4. From the list of languages select Chinese Simplified.
5. Select Chinese (Simplified, China).
6. Click on Language pack available.
7. Click on Options button.
8. Wait for Download to complete.
9. Under Keyboards click on Add a keyboard
10. Click on Microsoft Pinyin Input method editor and choose the language editor of your choice.

Please check the above and let us know.

Thank you.

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Thanks but sorry, your suggestion doesn’t work. I work in WINDOWS with German, there is an option for choose Keyboards of Deutsch QWERTZ for German, but no such option for MS Pinyin.

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This was a helpful reply in general, very helpful for simplified Chinese pinyin input, but the question was actually to get a Traditional Chinese PINYIN input (I donwloaded the Taiwanese traditional mandarin, but it is a bopomofo keyboard, which I can't use)

So the question that remains is how can I install (or find) a 'traditional mandarin pinyin input'?

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This was a helpful reply in general, very helpful for simplified Chinese pinyin input, but the question was actually to get a Traditional Chinese PINYIN input (I donwloaded the Taiwanese traditional mandarin, but it is a bopomofo keyboard, which I can't use)

So the question that remains is how can I install (or find) a 'traditional mandarin pinyin input'?

In reply to my own question...

After a bit more looking around I found out that under the simplified language pack, after installing the keyboard there is a choice of simplified or traditional character sets (so the name simplified language pack is a tad misleading)

Hope this helps anyone who had the same issues.

Thanking me for my help.

I'm welcome!

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Hi Kryten,

Thank you for providing us the resolution.

Yes, you are right on your part that in Windows 10 you have to select between the tradition and simplified set of characters under the simplified language pack. Thank you for your contribution in providing a solution of the issue.

Keep us posted for any of your other recurring issues with Windows, we'll be glad to assist you.

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Harkanwar

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Hello,

Welcome to Microsoft Community.

In order to resolve this issue follow these steps:

1. In the Cortana box type ‘Region’.
2. Click on ‘Region and Language Settings’.
3. Click on ‘Add a Language’.
4. From the list of languages select Chinese Simplified.
5. Select Chinese (Simplified, China).
6. Click on Language pack available.
7. Click on Options button.
8. Wait for Download to complete.
9. Under Keyboards click on Add a keyboard
10. Click on Microsoft Pinyin Input method editor and choose the language editor of your choice.

Please check the above and let us know.

Thank you.

DIDN'T WORK ON MY COMPUTER, I STILL NEED ON SCREEN CHINESE TRADITIONAL KEYBOARD, PLEASE!

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Hello,

Welcome to Microsoft Community.

In order to resolve this issue follow these steps:

1. In the Cortana box type ‘Region’.
2. Click on ‘Region and Language Settings’.
3. Click on ‘Add a Language’.
4. From the list of languages select Chinese Simplified.
5. Select Chinese (Simplified, China).
6. Click on Language pack available.
7. Click on Options button.
8. Wait for Download to complete.
9. Under Keyboards click on Add a keyboard
10. Click on Microsoft Pinyin Input method editor and choose the language editor of your choice.

Please check the above and let us know.

Thank you.

DIDN'T WORK ON MY COMPUTER, I STILL NEED ON SCREEN CHINESE TRADITIONAL KEYBOARD, PLEASE!

What you need to do is click on Options in 中文（中華人民共和國）after you have added the language. Then click on Microsoft Pinyin, and click on its Options. Then choose 'Traditional Chinese' in the Character set.

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I'm a bit embarrassed of asking this, but how to make the ^ (I can't see it in my keyboard).

I want to do this: CTRL-^

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How To Input Chinese Using Key Baord For Windows 10

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The ^ character (which looks like an inverted V) is known as caret. It's also known as a hat, control or uparrow.

It's Shift+6 on my UK keyboard, and I think it's the same for US layouts as well, so you could try Ctrl+Shift+6

If you have a different layout you could have a look at this page on Wikipedia which has pictures of many different keyboard layouts.

If you're on Windows you can get a ^ by hold down Alt and typing 094 on your numeric keypad which will work for all layouts, but unfortunately this won't work if you're holding down Ctrl

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According to Wikipedia:

Control characters are often rendered into a printable form known as caret notation by printing a caret (^) and then the ASCII character that has a value of the control character plus 64. Control characters generated using letter keys are thus displayed with the upper-case form of the letter. For example, ^G represents code 7, which is generated by pressing the G key when the control key is held down.

As '^' is ASCII 94 (decimal), 'Ctrl-^' might represent ASCII 30. Hence, holding down Alt and typing 30 on the numeric keypad might do the trick to 'type' Ctrl-^?

ArjanArjan

Press Ctrl+Shift+6. The ^ usually represents the Ctrl key, [ie ^C for a Keyboard Interrupt], but in this case, I think the ^ represents a literal caret.

The so called aschii-caret on a swedish keyboard -

hold CTRL and press the key with the caret-symbol two times

I think that (in a terminal under linux) you can hit Ctrl+vCtrl+^ .

Ctrl+v is by default bound to:

In order to verify my claim I used xxd (xxd - make a hexdump or do the reverse.) which comes with vim. I typed the following keys: xxdEnter, Ctrl+v, Ctrl+^, Ctrl+d, Ctrl+d and the result looked like:

Now the explanation is a little complicated:

• xxdEnter launches the application xxd.

• Ctrl+v, Ctrl+^ sends a 0x1e. In order to understand this you have to remember that Ctrl+x sends the character code of X (0x58, note: capital X) minus 0x40, that is 0x18. In case of ^ (0x5e) this results in 0x01e

• Ctrl+d, Ctrl+d terminates the input. (I don't know why I had to type it twice though).

And finally man ascii is really helpful in remembering all those character codes.

That thing is called Circumflex Accent AKA Circum Accent

Unicode: 005E
ASCII: 94
GID: 65

Most of the times it works by pressing Shift+6 or Ctrl+Shift+6

And of course it depends on the keyboard model and the layout that you're using.

But IF you couldn't type it you can use it by adding symbols.

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To type caret symbol on my Italian keyboard, I had to go tosettings -> region and language -> input sources -> Italian (no dead keys)

The italian keyboard didn't work well, so I had to choose the 'no dead keys' variant.

Dave M

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