L-native
Joined 15 January 2018
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I am here to study languages, mostly to improve my English, at the meanwhile to edit or fix some words and phrases. The User Page will be used for self-introduction and keeping important logs.
I just realize that I cannot handle pinyin correctly, not just due to the input methods. Besides, Chinese is subtly.
About Chinese Adjectives
edit- It is better to put a 的(de) at the end of every of them, which is an explicit indication of being an adjective. Without 的(de) a word can function as a noun, or maybe implicitly an adverb.
- In practice, it is complicated. For example: good,
About How to Input Pinyin Characters
editTwo simple solutions.
- You can use websites, e.g. https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary or Google Translation to type in Chinese once, then copy the pinyin and the Chinese characters and paste.
- Using a extended keyboard layout. Here it is English (US, intl. with dead keys) layout with a compact standard English Keyboard (only the left part) under Linux/Ubuntu.
- This layout of keyboard has four levels of keys, usually two levels with shift to switch. To use the third level, hold the right-alt. To use the fourth level, hold the right-alt and shift.
- For pinyin, there are four tones for one vowel. For example for o, there are ō, ó, ǒ, ò.
- ō: first tone with a macron,
right-alt + right-shift + 3/fourth key in the second row, release and then press o
. - ó: second tone with a acute,
right-alt + o
. - ǒ: third tone with a caron (not a breve, which is round),
right-alt + right-shift + ./period, release and then press o
. - ò: fourth tone with a grave,
`/first key in the second row + o
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- ō: first tone with a macron,
- References:
- ...It is so complicated and easy to make mistakes, so I suggest you to use the first method.
--L-native (talk) 12:06, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
- Additionally there is User:L-native/Pinyin_with_tone_marks.