Perhaps an example might help. Here's an image of some Chinese characters:
http://www.chinesecomputing.com/images/background2.gif This appears to be an array of characters of 6 columns wide and 10 rows deep. Counting from the upper left corner and starting with 1, the character in column 1, row 1 looks like a rectangle with a vertical line bisecting it. While the character in column 4, row 9 looks like a dash or horizontal line. And the character in column 6, row 8 looks like a cup of tea on top of a dresser. Some questions: 1) How can I find out what those characters means? 2) How can I use Google translate to find out what those characters mean? 3) Are there on-line dictionaries which I can browse to find the character I'm looking for? My interest is not so much in knowing what those particular characters mean. Rather I'm interested in knowing the process by which I can discover what those characters mean. Regards, - Robert On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Craig Tatham<[email protected]> wrote: > If you have those characters on a webpage, then you can copy and paste the > characters into Google Translate and it will convert from Chinese to > English. Trick is knowing if it is simplified or traditional ... typically > if its a very complex character it is traditional, simpler ones are > simplified. > Craig > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> How does one translate Chinese into English? >> >> I've used Google Translate to translate simple words and phrases from >> English to Spanish, German, or French and back. I've even used it to >> translate English into Chinese. But how to I translate Chinese into >> English? That is, how do I enter the Chinese characters? >> >> For example, I have a Chinese character that kind of looks like two >> W's, one on top of the other. How do I enter that in to the text box? >> >> Regards, >> - Robert >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
