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Pinyin is a system for writing standard Mandarin Chinese using the Roman alphabet.

Pinyin is a system for writing standard Mandarin Chinese using the Roman alphabet. Pinyin was developed by the People’s Republic of China in 1958, and implemented in 1979. It is used exclusively in mainland China to this day. Over the years pinyin has become widely accepted by the international community, replacing older systems of Romanization such as the Wade-Giles system.

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Ubuntu 22.04 Chinese (simplified) pinyin input support

There are well over a decade's worth of mutually incompatible instructions for setting up basic pinyin input on previous versions of Ubuntu. People make lots of claims about needing to do now obsolete rubbish, which means that many people (including…
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14.04 Chinese Ibus Input - No Options

getting my new 14.04 rig going ;-) Pretty happy with it, everything seems to be working great. For Chinese input, however, having a problem. I went through the typical steps, open language in settings, let it install some stuff, then add Chinese and…
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My IBus pinyin broke with 14.04 release upgrade

I've just upgraded to 14.04 and I've got a problem with IBus pinyin input. While it is very-very nice that now I have a little floating panel on which I can switch between simplified and traditional characters, full/half width, and can reach the…
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Type chinese PinYin with tones

I am trying to write chinese characters and pinyin with indicated tones. Setting up chinese Characters with pinyin input was failry easy. Just adding Chinese as a language and then Chinese - Simplified for the Keyboard Input. But now I would also…
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Selecting a number does not always return a Chinese character with ibus pinyin

I use Intelligent Pinyin Keyboard1 with ibus in Ubuntu to input Chinese characters into my document. The input-method is designed in such a way that one types the pinyin associated with a character, and then one can select it from a list of…
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How to install Chinese input in English Ubuntu

I haven't found the right setting for Chinese input, IBus pinyin. If I want to write "ni hao" the correct alternative shows up after writing "nih" (as second alternative). But if I continue writing "niha" or "nihao" it will show something like "你哈".…
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Chinese (intelligent pinyin) is not working well

when selecting target Chinese character's number, it will display the number instead of the character I needed. Any thoughts? Ubuntu Version:18.04, Desktop, ibus Libpinyin e.g. when selecting the third one, it will display as 证件3
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IBus Pinying input works incorrectly if non-latin language installed

I have English, Ukrainian, Russian, Greek and Chinese Pinyin input languages (ordered as switched by keyboard shortcut) on Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit. If Pinying have been selected by keyboard shortcut the Chinese word "hao" appears as "ηαο" (in Greek…
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Remove Pi (Pinyin)

Ubuntu 14.04. I installed SunPinyin and it worked good. But under language bar, there are three choices: Eng, Pi (Pinyin), Sunpinyin. I wanted to remove Pi (Pinyin)(which does not work). Tried remove, purge ibus pinyin command and Pi (Pinyin) is…
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22.04: Chinese pinyin does not work on browser

I followed the instructions in Ubuntu 22.04 Chinese (simplified) pinyin input support to install Chinese pinyin input. It works on a text editor but does not work on the browser (Firefox). How can I troubleshoot this issue?
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Ubuntu 18.04 how to input Chinese tone marks? Hanyu pinyin is missing

I am trying to have the ability to input Chinese tones directly into text editor in Ubuntu 18.04. I have installed ibus-pinyin and ibus-m17n packages but I cannot find in Region&Language input picker the hanyu pinyin input method, there is only…
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IBus Pinyin: What key to press to scroll to next Chinese character?

I'm using the IBus 1.5.11 input-method framework to type Japanese (Anthy input-method package) which works perfectly well. I can input Roman characters and press Space key to scroll through all word or kanji character suggestions and then press…
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How can I change the order Google Pinyin displays characters in Xubuntu?

I have a small problem. I am using Google Pinyin via Fctix on Xubuntu, and I am typing the word "彼得" a lot. However, there is a more common Chinese combination, "比的", which appears before the characters "彼得". I would rather have 彼得 appear after…
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Prevent fcitx autostart

I would like to prevent the fcitx input method selection tool from starting automatically. I have an up-and-running fcitx with Chinese sogoupinyin installed on my system. If I restart the computer fcitx-autostart automatically loads the qimpanel for…
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ubuntu install "sogou pinyin" doesn't work

after successful downloading the sogou pinyin deb I install by double click and it shows sucessfully installed but cannot start. My system is ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
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