Input collection of "rare characters" for various commonly used pinyin input methods. Choosing an input method that supports the GBK font is the fundamental solution to the problem of inputting rare characters. Under normal circumstances, the fonts used by the input method are based on the gb2312-80 national standard code. This standard contains a total of 7445 graphic characters, including 6763 Chinese characters. This means that this standard only contains commonly used Chinese characters, so it cannot be used for uncommon characters. Words are useless. "GBK" is the Chinese character extended internal code specification, which is a supplement to the gb2312 national standard code and contains 20,902 Chinese characters. 1. Microsoft Pinyin Input Method If you are using the Windows XP operating system or a Windows system with Microsoft Pinyin Input Method 3.0 or above installed, you can easily solve the above troubles through the following steps. First, switch the input method to "Microsoft Pinyin Input Method", and then find the "Open/Close Input Pad" button on the input method status bar (if not, you can click "▽Options" in the lower right corner and select "Input" in the pop-up menu. plate"). After opening the "Input Pad", click the "Handwriting Recognition" icon button in the upper left corner (if not, you can click the far left end of the title bar and select "Input Method Plug-in Menu → Settings" to add the "Handwriting Recognition" option). After entering the handwriting recognition state, hold down the left mouse button in the box on the left and use the mouse drag method to draw the shape of "魭" as accurately as possible (Figure 1), and it will be displayed in the box on the right. There are many alternative words. You can see that the first word is what we want to input. Click it to complete the input. A collection of "rare characters" input for various commonly used pinyin input methods 2. Intelligent ABC input method Using the pen input function of the intelligent ABC input method can also solve the above problems. By default, the smart ABC input method does not activate the pen input function. Right-click the input method status bar, select the "Property Settings" option in the pop-up menu, open the "Smart ABC Input Method Settings" dialog box, and check "Pen Input" checkbox and click the OK button. After activating the pen input function, the number keys 1 to 8 on the keyboard correspond to eight basic strokes: horizontal (lift), vertical, left, dot (press), fold (vertical hook), bend, cross, and square. For example, to enter "载", enter: 7236 (Figure 2). Input collection of "rare characters" for various commonly used pinyin input methods. Note: Right-click the input status bar, select the "Help" option in the pop-up menu, open the "Help Topic" dialog box, switch to the "Index" tab, and select "Pure Pen Shape" " item, click the "Show" button below to open the help content of the pen input function. You can refer to it for details. 3. Ziguang Pinyin Input Method Ziguang Pinyin Input Method comes with a radical character detection program. Using it, you can easily find the rare characters you want to input. Taking the Ziguang Pinyin Input Method 6.0 as an example, to input the word "歙", just right-click the input method status bar, select the "Radical Radical Check" option in the pop-up menu, and then enter the "Radical Radical Check" dialog box that appears. In the "Radicals" box, select the 4-stroke "qian" radical, and you can find the character in "12 (the number of remaining strokes after removing the radicals)" in the "Chinese Characters" column on the right. The pronunciation of the word is displayed at the bottom of the window (Figure 3). Various commonly used Pinyin input methods "rare character" input sets should be noted: During the installation process of Ziguang Pinyin Input Method 6.0, you must select "I need to input Chinese characters in a large character set (such as "镕")" in the setup wizard. 4. Pinyin Jiajia Input Method Users who use Pinyin Jiajia Input Method, when encountering a rare word that they do not know the correct pronunciation of, can first press the I key to switch the input method to the stroke input state. At this time, horizontal, vertical, apostrophe, and dot ( The five basic strokes of (捺) and fold correspond to the initial consonants h, s, p, d(n), and z, and then you can enter the keys in sequence according to the stroke order. If you want to input the word "绱", you can press the strokes to input "izzhsd", press the Tab key to turn the page to find the word, and its pronunciation will be displayed behind the word. Select it to enter. Do the same when encountering other Chinese characters whose pronunciation is unknown. 5. Google Pinyin input method The stroke input function of Google Pinyin input method is specially designed for inputting rare words whose pronunciation is unknown. The specific usage method is similar to the Pinyin Jiajia input method: first press the U key to enter the stroke input mode, and then input the strokes of the word in sequence, where the stroke codes are h (horizontal), s (vertical), p (apostrophe), n (nip) , z (fold), d (point), where n and d are the same.
For example, to input "癀", press the U key to enter the stroke input mode, and then press each stroke code key "udhpdhhsshszhshpn" of the word in sequence (Figure 6) to get the word. Download the Google Pinyin Input Method Note: After entering the stroke input mode, the 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 numeric keys on the small keyboard also represent h, s, p, n, and z.