A Cross-Cultural Family 跨文化的家庭

The adventures of an American / Chinese, Chinese-speaking family.

Wednesday, September 27, 2006


手寫板 Chinese Language Palm Pilot

My wife has just started using her new toy, a Chinese type of palm pilot 手寫板 she bought in China. It allows her to write Chinese characters on to the screen which are transformed into code in the PC (that actually looks a lot nicer than the one on the left...with rainbow color characters.) We bought it in the 海印 Electronics District in Guangzhou for a good price, around $7 US.

My handwriting is not very legible in either English or Chinese, so I prefer entering Chinese characters using the keyboard. (a doctor's handwriting!) Software allows me to enter the characters using either pin yin or the radicals 部首.