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| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5156 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes  Speaks: Spanish* | Message 1 of 5 01 May 2013 at 3:15am | IP Logged |
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What is the absolute fastest, most convenient and efficient, best way of inputting kanji into a computer? My method relies on frequent computer dictionary look-ups and this works well for other languages, but I find inputting unknown kanji takes more time and effort than I wish, and wonder if there is a better way. There is the IME Pad, but drawing kanji with a mouse is very uncomfortable and time consuming. Would this help? What other options are there?
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| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5577 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 2 of 5 01 May 2013 at 10:12am | IP Logged |
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I actually have a graphics tablet, it works - and I don't use it for writing kanji. What I do is that I cheat my way around readings - I usually know at least one reading for almost all 常用漢字 and when I don't know the one in question I enter a word that uses that kanji, and cobble together the word I wanted to look up. For example, if I didn't know 常用 I might enter 日常 にちじょう and 用いる もちいる. Even though I sometimes need to use radical lookup or the IME pad, it's faster for me than constantly switching between keyboard and graphics tablet.
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| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5156 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 3 of 5 04 May 2013 at 5:59pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you Bao. I use the "cheating method" as well, but for reading you need many more than the jouyou kanji, and each new kanji you meet reappears less frequently as well, making learning their readings a challenge. Thus I would like to find a sure method of looking up any unknown word I might encounter in a comfortable and expeditious way.
No one else looks up or inputs unknown kanji on their computers? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5577 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 4 of 5 04 May 2013 at 10:11pm | IP Logged |
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Are you sure that such material isn't slightly too complicated to deal with? It's not that hard to switch to radical lookup in an IME or a kanji dictionary.
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| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5156 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 5 of 5 04 May 2013 at 11:25pm | IP Logged |
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I look up between 20 and 30 unknown words on average per hour of study, so finding the best method of inputting kanji makes a big difference to me. Drawing kanji with a pen or brush on paper is not too bad and can in fact be fun, but using the mouse is as uncomfortable as can be. Has anyone used one of these?
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