text: We type in pin-yin. \n\nFor example, me in chinese sounds like woa in english but it is written as wo in chinese pinyin.\nso we type wo and all wo's pop up and we select the right wo.\nPin-yin is a english-like version of chinese where the word is expressed in alphabet form and not traditional calligrphies.\n\nEdit: @ jdmc\nFYI, we do type with english letters not chinese special keyboards.