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		harmonicon on Feb 8, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why do Chinese websites look so busy? It is useful when you are trying to type a character that you cannot quite pronounce/pronounce erroneously. It happens quite often even with Chinese people. With this input you can simply imitate the strokes.

mikeash on Feb 8, 2016 [–]

That's definitely true. But for average day-to-day text input, people seem to vastly prefer the "hopelessly slow" pinyin method.

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