Re: pinyin character input

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 05:12:41PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> Sorry for this naive question.
> 
> I am using chinese-py input method, but there is a character I cannot
> generate. It is ji (first tone), a polite address to a woman.  When I
> enter "ji", the character I want is not an option. Is this a font
> limitation or should I be entering the "ji" somehow with the first tone?

I shouldn't be saying anything, because I'm far out of my depth here, but
hey...

To try to localize the character you're talking about, I went to some
Wikipedia page [1]. The best match I found there (by some secret, undisclosed
fuzzy matching, because revealing the details would be too embarrasing)
was

  ~姬~姬jī   A suffix used for a female friend, maiden. "Guniang"
             (Chinese: 姑娘; pinyin: gūniang) is sometimes used.

(note: Chinese characters might be mangled; my terminal font can't display
them).

Copying that from the browser and yanking into Emacs produces a pretty
similar ideograph, so it seems I was onto something. Putting mark there
and typing "M-x describe-char" gives a lot of info. The relevant tidbit:

  to input: type "ji1" with chinese-tonepy input method

So try switching to "chinese-tonepy" and entering "ji1"?

Perhaps you'll find some useful hints in the above chaos; then at least
there is some use for me having made a fool of myself ;-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_honorifics#Other_prefixes_and_suffixes

- -- tomás
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