There is no doubt that Chinese character is difficult.
But fortunately, living in the era of of information and technology, we don’t really need write but type in daily life. Mobile phone, pad, laptop...... we type anytime, anywhere.
When you are trying to type Chinese to your Chinese friends,
do you wish the pinyin keyboard could help you get the correct characters and type better?
ICboard, an input method which is created to assist foreign Chinese learners to type the Chinese characters better.
1. Tone and Common Translation Display
- 字
- 词
2. Long Press Shows More
We add a mini dictionary on the keyboard. Long press every single word you can learn more. Then you get the translations, pronunciations and sentences. We also add the label on the word if it belongs to HSK vocabulary.
3. Use it as a normal input method
- You can input long sentences.
- You can also long press the sentence you type. It will simply show you the translations to check if the sentence is correct.
- normal English input
4. Translation
No need to switch to translation apps to search unknown words when you are typing.
- If you have a word you don't know how to express in Chinese when you are typing, press the button "译"(which means "translation"),input English then it will output Chinese. To some degree it saves your time.
- Long press it you can also learn more.
5. Voice Input
Press the microphone button and speak Chinese, it outputs the characters.
6. Gesture
Create your own gesture and name it in Chinese or English. Then you can easily send a message by "drawing".
What do you think? :p
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or click "Read more" on the bottom
you can download the app and take a try!
The download is only available on
ICboard Official Account temporarily
ICboard is free for educational purpose. The upgraded version has not been officially released yet and only beta version1.3.1 is available. If there is any copyright issue please contact us: wendy.wang@iclab.Itd
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