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• navigate to your “Settings” menu.

• Select “General” 

• Tap “Keyboard.”

• Select “Keyboards” at the top

• Click “Add New Keyboard…”

• Scroll down and select “Chinese (Simplified)

• Choose the “QWERTY” Pinyin layout or "handwriting"

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If you are learning to write Chinese characters, installing "handwriting" will help you practice memorizing characters.

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• Navigate to “System Preferences.”

• Select “Keyboard.”

• Select “Input Sources.” 

• Click on the “+” at the bottom left of the window to add language.

• Scroll down and select “Chinese (Simplified)” from the box on the left. In the box on the right, select “Pinyin – Simplified” 

• Select “Add.”

• You’ll notice there’s an “A” symbol in your upper right menu bar. Press this button and select the “拼” symbol. Your Chinese keyboard is now activated. 

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• In your Cortana box (system setting), type “Region.”

• Go to “Region and Language Settings.”

• Select “Add a Language.” Choose “Chinese Simplified > Chinese (Simplified, China)”

• Select the available language pack. 

• Go to “Keyboards” and select “Add a Keyboard.” Choose the “Microsoft Pinyin” .

• Select “Microsoft Bopomofo” as your preferred input method editor.

• From the “Microsoft Bopomofo” menu, select “HanYu Pinyin.”

• Close the “Settings” window.

• On your Windows menu bar (bottom right of the screen), there’ll be a little keyboard icon. Click on this to switch between your Chinese and English keyboards.

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Other PCs

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• Click on the "start" window button on the bottom left of the screen. 

• Click on "setting" icon (right above the power button)

• In the search bar, type "language" and click on "edit language and keyboard options"

• Under "preferred language", click on the "+ add a preferred language"

• Choose Chinese Simplified (Pinyin)

• You are set! It'll take a minute to load but you will be able to click on the bottom right corner that says "ENG" to switch back and forth from English and Chinese.

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• Click on the chrome logo to open the browser

• on the top right corner of the browser, click on the button with 3 dots and choose "setting"

• In the search bar, type in "languages " and wait five seconds for it to fully load

• Under "language and input", 
  click on "Language", scroll down and click on "add languages", add Chinese (simplified)

• Click on  "Input Method", click on "manage input methods", scroll down to "Chinese (simplified)" and tick the box for "Pinyin input method"

• Scroll back up and click the arrow to go back to the previous pack

• The last option under "Input method" is "Show input options in the shelf", remember to turn it on by swiping the button rightwards.

• You are all set! Now when you click on the bottom right button that says "US", you'll see two keyboard choices.