I just pronounce that yuyuyu
By the way there’s turtle 烏龜 then there’s a creature that looks like a turtle but is called 鼈. What’s the difference apart from that one of them is commonly eaten?
What happen if I make a character 貓貓貓 stacked up like a pyramid? How would you pronounce that?
Whatever this is called in Chinese
嚻 without the grass.
𡈨 𡆵 𠾅 㗊 QR code
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I still think characters are a stupid writing system.
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Wow… I can’t help but take my phone to scan them
It wasn’t stupid when it was invented, in fact it seems perfectly logical.
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For a thousand years the Hanji writing system allowed people speaking different languages to communicate by writing. Today it is also way faster to type Chinese if you learn one of the non-phonetic input methods, with each characters taking no more than 4 key-presses to enter, and the most commonly used ones under 2 key-presses.
I still have no idea how to use non zhuyin inputs. Zhuyin is too slow. There’s handwriting input but those work better for baby boomers like my dad.
If you are starting from scratch, I recommend array ime.
I personally use Boshiamy, which is fine, but it’s not available as default in most OS. It’s how I was able to type 𡈨 and other characters because I just typed OOOO and saw a whole bunch of characters shaped like O.
I can do that with Array too, just type 0-0-0-0- and I can get 𠾅 and 㗊
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I know there are other input methods commonly used in windows or Mac. I think one has to do with root characters, seen guys who can type quite fast on it. I have no idea how it works. Zhuyin is what I use because if I can say it, I can type it.
Usually it has a root table, and you assemble the roots like lego blocks.
For Boshiamy for example, many of the roots are based on the shape of Latin alphabets. Therefore 哈 would be typed with OAO.
That doesn’t seem standard though, and if I’m doing it on a public computer this will be a problem.
All OS comes with Cangjie and Array by default. Whether they are enabled is another matter.
Don’t think any input method would be quicker for me than using Hanyu Pinyin. Cause it’s like typing English
Blame the Phoenicians for taking only the sound-based pictographic scribbles of Egyptian and simplifying life for most of the world/China for staying their course in picture script?
That’s the thing. We should just write in Zhuyin and be done with it. Characters are needless complications. Not just for people learning it as a second language (characters are the biggest obstacle to immersion learning) but also native speakers. I don’t know them off hand but I remember there were studies Chinese speakers learn maths faster and some other things slower solely due to the relative ease or difficulty of the language. And it’s just annoying 
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I also understand time for this kind of radical change is long past. But I’d like people admitting it instead of keep saying it’s fine.
There are 69 Chinese characters pronounced yi (first tone) in my dictionary. Good luck with that approach.
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And the problem with pinyin is, how do you write ㄕ，ㄙ in pinyin? How do you tell them apart? There are several pairs like this in zhuyin.
Those pairs is one reason why I can’t type Chinese quickly in zhuyin, because what I THINK it’s pronounced, turns out to be the other one in the pair. So a lot of trial and error to figure out which is which. Like ㄛ，ㄜ，ㄦ
It is indeed an interesting proposal, especially considering that all Taiwanese can already read and write it, whereas no other country can. Why not embrace that uniqueness, just as Korea embraced their own Hangul and discarded the Chinese script?
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