How To Add Chinese Keyboard To Macbook

Hullo and welcome to the ultimate, definitive main guide for setting upwardly the Chinese language input on your computer or mobile device. Whether y'all are a Mac or a PC user, Android or iOS, we've got it all covered in this post!

The fact is, you don't need to know how to write every stroke of every character to blazon in Chinese! Typing in Chinese is not only the chief mode near Chinese people actually create most written messages, information technology's besides a bully way to practise grapheme recognition, and is a core attribute to how we teach Chinese characters in our courses.

Affair of fact, nosotros do require typing Chinese characters for some quiz questions on our site, so we highly recommend adding the Chinese keyboard - that way you can get the most out of our quizzes and answer all quiz question types successfully!

This article is about setting up the Chinese keyboard on your device. If you're wondering how a "Chinese keyboard" works, given that keyboards don't have Chinese characters, y'all should first lookout Lesson iv from our Chinese Grapheme Grade where we explain the process itself of how to type Hanzi using a keyboard:

Now that you know how the process works, you're prepare for this guide! Nosotros've got step-by-step instructions for actually setting upwardly the Chinese character input keyboard - simplified or traditional - on your device.

We've listed out how to install a Chinese keyboard for the 4 below categories:

Computers: Mac OS
Computers: Windows
Mobile: iOS (iPhone, iPad)
Mobile: Android

Just cheque out the device you want to use, and start typing Chinese characters. Not just will yous be writing in Standard mandarin, but you'll be practicing your character recognition!

Computers: Mac Os

To prepare the Chinese grapheme keyboard on your Apple tree computer:

Footstep ane. Click the Apple tree Menu in the superlative left corner of your screen and select "System Preferences":

Footstep two. From the Arrangement Preferences carte du jour, select "Keyboard":

Stride 3. On the "Keyboard" menu, click the plus sign in the bottom left corner to add a new keyboard:

Step four. Roll down to select "Chinese - Simplified" or "Chinese - Traditional" and click "Add together":

STEP 5: Now you're all set to type in Chinese! Just click the input icon in the menu at the top right corner of your screen and select Chinese from the dropdown:

Pro Tip: Y'all can easily toggle between language input sources by holding the "command" primal (^) and click the space bar.

Computers: Windows

We're going to show yous how to set up upwards the Chinese character keyboard on your PC computer running the Windows 10 operating system. There are some small differences with older versions of Windows (for case, on Windows vii the "Time and Languages" bill of fare is called "Region and Language" and the overall design is slightly different).

Stride one. Open up the "Time and Languages" menu by clicking the IME (Input Method Editor) icon and and choosing "Language preferences":

STEP 2. In the "Time and Languages" menu, click "Region and language" and then select "Add a language":

STEP 3. Select "Chinese Simplified" or "Chinese Traditional" (or both!):

STEP 4. Choose "Chinese (Simplified, China)" to ostend the language pick:

Step v. Y'all've now added the Chinese language keyboard input, and can select it by clicking on the IME icon in the card in the bottom correct corner of your screen:

Mobile: iOS (iPhone, iPad)

To gear up the Chinese language keyboard on your iOS device:

Stride 1. Open the Settings for your device and click on "Full general":

STEP 2. Scroll down and select "Keyboards":

STEP 3. On the "Keyboards" bill of fare screen, click "Add New Keyboard":

Pace four. Find "Chinese (Simplified)" or "Chinese (Traditional)" from the listing of languages and click to add together the keyboard:

STEP five. Cull the Pinyin input method with the keyboard layout you prefer:

Pace vi: Now y'all're all set to blazon in Chinese! Only click the "Globe" cardinal next to the space bar whenever you are inputing text to switch to the Chinese keyboard:

Mobile: Android

The most popular Chinese character input method for Android user'southward is the Google Pinyin Input app.

STEP 1: Open the Google Play shop and search for "Google Pinyin App", then click to install:

STEP 2: Open the Google Pinyin Input app and click the button to "Enable" the input method:

Step three: In the "Language & input" menu, toggle the slider to enable Google Pinyin Input:

STEP 4: Back in the Google Pinyin Input app, click "Select Input Method":

STEP five: Select "Google Pinyin Input" and and then click "Configure input methods":

Stride vi: Click "Keyboard" from the app settings menu:

Step 7: Select the keyboard layout you adopt. You tin can switch to the Chinese input anytime you bring up the keyboard to blazon past clicking the symbol:

Tip: How to Type "ü" Characters (e.g. 女)

When you attempt to type the character 女 (nǚ), meaning "female" - as in 女人 (nǚ rén) or 美女 (měi nǚ) - the right grapheme doesn't pop upwards!

You lot type in "nu" and y'all get 怒 (nù) - "angry", or 奴 (nú) - "slave", but no 女 (nǚ)！

It's driving you CRAZY! You're wondering, "What am I doing wrong???"

The hush-hush is simple!

To type characters with the ǚ sound, type "v" instead of "u"! So for 女 (nǚ), but type "nv" instead of "nu".

Information technology's that easy!

Now that you lot've got you device set up, first typing Chinese!

You lot can use your own input method for our typing exercises, write your own Chinese verse or stories, start sending messages in Mandarin to your Chinese friends and young man students, and brand new friends in the great big world of Chinese social media.

If you lot have any other questions or need any help, just send us a message to chat with our squad!