Chinese input methods for computers

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Chinese input methods are methods that allow a computer user to input Chinese characters.
Most, if not all, Chinese input methods fall into one of two categories: phonetic readings or root shapes.
Methods under the phonetic category usually are easier to learn but are less efficient, thus resulting in slower typing speeds because they typically require users to choose from a list of phonetically similar characters for input,
whereas methods under the root shape category allow very precise and speedy input but have a steep learning curve because they often require a thorough understanding of a character's strokes and composition.
Other methods allow users to write characters directly onto touchscreens, such as those found on mobile phones and tablet computers.
An early experimental Chinese keyboard with many keys was developed by researchers of National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, but it never became mainstream.
Chinese input methods predate the computer.
One of the early attempts was an electro-mechanical Chinese typewriter Ming kwai （Chinese: 明快; pinyin: míngkuài; Wade–Giles: ming-k'uai） which was invented by Lin Yutang, a prominent Chinese writer, in the 1940s.
It assigned thirty base shapes or strokes to different keys and adopted a new way of categorizing Chinese characters.
But the typewriter was not produced commercially and Lin soon found himself deeply in debt.
Before the 1980s, Chinese publishers hired teams of workers and selected a few thousand type pieces from an enormous Chinese character set.
Chinese government agencies entered characters using a long, complicated list of Chinese telegraph codes, which assigned different numbers to each character.
During the early computer era, Chinese characters were categorized by their radicals or Pinyin romanization, but results were less tha...