User:L-native

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I am here to study languages, mostly to improve my English, at the meanwhile to edit or fix some words and phrases. The User Page will be used for self-introduction and keeping important logs.

I just realize that I cannot handle pinyin correctly, not just due to the input methods. Besides, Chinese is subtly.

About Chinese Adjectives

• It is better to put a 的(de) at the end of every of them, which is an explicit indication of being an adjective. Without 的(de) a word can function as a noun, or maybe implicitly an adverb.
• In practice, it is complicated. For example: good,

He is good. 他是好的。

A good man. 一个好（的）人。

--Mr. L ^{(talk/contribs)} 18:19, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

About How to Input Pinyin Characters

Two simple solutions.

• You can use websites, e.g. https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary or Google Translation to type in Chinese once, then copy the pinyin and the Chinese characters and paste.
• Using a extended keyboard layout. Here it is English (US, intl. with dead keys) layout with a compact standard English Keyboard (only the left part) under Linux/Ubuntu.
  • This layout of keyboard has four levels of keys, usually two levels with shift to switch. To use the third level, hold the right-alt. To use the fourth level, hold the right-alt and shift.
  • For pinyin, there are four tones for one vowel. For example for o, there are ō, ó, ǒ, ò.
    • ō: first tone with a macron, right-alt + right-shift + 3/fourth key in the second row, release and then press o.
    • ó: second tone with a acute, right-alt + o.
    • ǒ: third tone with a caron (not a breve, which is round), right-alt + right-shift + ./period, release and then press o.
    • ò: fourth tone with a grave, `/first key in the second row + o.
  • References:
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin#Tones
    • https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/tree/symbols/us
  • ...It is so complicated and easy to make mistakes, so I suggest you to use the first method.

--L-native (talk) 12:06, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

• Additionally there is User:L-native/Pinyin_with_tone_marks.

-- Mr. L (Talk / Contrib) 09:55, 30 October 2018 (UTC)