MDBG Chinese Reader

Writing Chinese with Microsoft IME Pad

After installing Microsoft Chinese IME, you will need to configure IME Pad for Chinese handwriting. Don't have a digitizing pad? No problem, just use your mouse to draw characters in the IME Pad.

1. Open your email or document that will receive the Chinese characters

2. From the Windows Language bar, choose CH Chinese (Simplified, PRC)

3. Click Hand Writing (CH) and draw the character

 

4. As you draw the character, the candidate list will show potential matches

5. View the meanings of each character by hovering your mouse over the candidate entries. Chinese Reader will show an enlarged view of the character, its meaning and Pinyin. If AutoPronounce is enabled, each character will also be pronounced. The MDBG Chinese-English dictionary contains the most popular characters; radical fragments and obsolete characters are not supported

6. Click on a character to enter it into your application (email, document)

Even the initial fragments of a very crudely-drawn Chinese character can sometimes be recognized by Microsoft IME Pad



Tip: When the IME Pad is displayed, clicking inside the LiveScan or HighlightScan popup windows may cause Chinese Reader to lose track of which window is being used. To re-sync, click on the Main Chinese Reader window, then click inside the IME Pad window.