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Zhongguo = China
Riben = Japan
Hanguo = Korea
Yingguo = Britain
Faguo = France
Deguo = Germany
Xibanya = Spain
Putaoya = Portugal
Xila = Greece
Eluosi or Eguo = Russia
Meiguo = America
Jianada = Canada
Zhongguo = China
Riben = Japan
Hanguo = Korea
Yingguo = Britain
Faguo = France
Deguo = Germany
Xibanya = Spain
Putaoya = Portugal
Xila = Greece
Eluosi or Eguo = Russia
Meiguo = America
Jianada = Canada
Very different indeed. I´d say Jianada and Xibanya are perhaps felt. In fact Faguo and Deguo are as well but one has to scrutinize.
It would be impossible to have a keyboard with enough keys to type all Chinese / Japanese characters directly.
In Japanese at least, one simply uses a standard keyboard, types the pronunciation of the word in the Latin alphabet (for instance, hana) and then chooses from the various options which appear: 花、鼻、はな、etc.
It is very easy because it requires only the ability to recognize the correct character when one sees it. Actually recalling and writing the character (with a pen, for instance) is more difficult.
In China they have the usual qwerty keyboard (i think). They type the pinyin (the sound) then they choose which one they want out of the list of characters that have the same pinyin. At least that's what I assume. I've never really seen a Chinese keyboard.
In Taiwan our keyboard layout is more complicated. I think on the old ones each little button has 4 different things on it. There's the Roman alphabet, the zhuyin alphabet, Cangjie radical, and Dayi radical. I think most people use the zhuyin input system, and basically we just type the zhuyin (again the sound, just the alphabets are only used here) then pick the character you need out of the list. Cangjie is probably the second most popular input system, and you emsemble the radicals to form characters. It's harder and I have no idea how to do it. I'm pretty sure that Dayi input system is extremely rare and barely anyone is using it. The new keyboards usually don't have the radicals of this input system. There are other input systems (like a lot) but I have no idea how to type with them and have no intention to learn whatsoever. I think Taiwanese keyboard layout is probably the most crowded one in the world due to the variety of input systems.
I also have no idea about the situation in Hong Kong.
So to answer your question. No there is no character on our keyboards, there are only different "alphabets" to form those characters. Most of the time you have to choose the correct character to type like an adult, or your sentences would look really dumb. There's auto-correct as well but it's kinda not smart enough to get everything right.
If you're interested you can google Taiwanese keyboard. On the keyboard button, the alphabet on the top left is the usual qwerty Latin alphabet, top right is zhuyin alphabet, bottom left is Cangjie "alphabet", and bottom right is Dayi "alphabet" which no one ever uses.
If anyone knows how to explain it better please chime in. I feel like this post is so confusing lol.
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