pinyin character input

pinyin character input

[Haines Brown]

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?

Re: pinyin character input

[tomas]

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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

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Re: pinyin character input

[William Xu]

Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> writes:

> 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?

If this is what you want:

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

After typing "ji", it shows up as first one on the fifth page of the
candidates.  (Use arrow down to see next page)

-- 
William

And in the heartbreak years that lie ahead,
Be true to yourself and the Grateful Dead.
		-- Joan Baez

Re: pinyin character input

[Lewis Perin]

Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> writes:

>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?

The chinese-tonepy-punct has that character.

/Lew
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