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| | MonkeyFilter | Yingzi |
 | | LarimdaME, there are actually several different methods of inputting Chinese; the most common one for Westerners is based on the Pinyin of each character, but there are a bunch of other methods, based on anything from a character's strokes to its radicals. |
 | | The Wubi method looks like it might be the most efficient one, but the Five Stroke method hasn't been too hard to pick up for me. Both of these come with OS X, fortunately. |
 | | The Five Stroke method only uses five (or, in OS X's case, six) keys on the number pad, one for each type of stroke: 1 for rightward, 2 for downward, 3 for down-left, 4 for dot or down-right, and 5 for anything else, more or less. |
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