How To Install Chinese Handwriting Keyboard On Windows 10

Windows 10 Chinese Setup:
Handwriting, Speech, and Language Packs

Other pages:
Overview ◊ Input methods setup ◊ Traditional grapheme Pinyin input
Simplified character input alternative: MSZY
Handwriting, oral communication, & language packs (this folio)
Advanced features ◊ Help files - in English!
Missing, broken, and simply patently lame Chinese features

These are separate downloads in Windows 10

The following instructions assume you accept already fix at least 1 Chinese language and keyboard, as described on the input methods setup page.

Equally of Windows 10, you practice non need to download display languages - "linguistic communication packs" - unless you lot want to modify the Windows Start menu and other system feaures into another language. In Windows 8 and before versions, Chinese handwriting was bundled with the language pack downloads, even though language packs have actually never been required to make Chinese handwriting piece of work - or Chinese typing or reading for that matter.

If yous begin at the Language menu and select "Language preferences" as shown hither, you volition be able to download these items separately.

You can also go to the same identify via the Start menu: click "Settings" > so in the Settings panel click "Time & Language", and in that panel go to "Regional settings".

If y'all are using the classic desktop language bar, I suggest that in this situation you apply the First menu Settings path described in the previous paragraph.

Here'south 1 reason why:

In the Taiwan and Macau region settings, the old-way desktop control panel will not offering you the handwriting or speech downloads, considering - every bit of the Windows 10 launch, anyway - in that command console they are still arranged with the language pack, and in the global Windows release, the language pack is not available in the Taiwan or Macau regional settings. For that, you need to select Hong Kong, PRC, or Singapore in your language setup. Just in the following new settings panels, handwriting and speech are available separately.

In the "Time & Language" settings panel, under "Region & language", select the Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese linguistic communication area to reveal the three buttons you lot see here, and then select "Options":

Yous'll find three download buttons available at the top of the next console, nether "Language options". (Again, in the global Windows release, display linguistic communication packs are available only in the Hong Kong, PRC, and Singapore regions, simply if you lot chose Taiwan or Macau during linguistic communication setup you'll just meet the download buttons for handwriting and spoken communication.)

Let'south look at these ane at a time:
• Handwriting
• Spoken communication (Jump to this »)
• Language packs (Jump to this »)

Handwriting

Both Simplified and Traditional handwriting are available in the new Impact Keyboard handwriting mode. About of the information below focuses on that feature.

But first, I should besides mention that the original Windows Chinese handwriting feature is still available in the IME Pad for Traditional Chinese:

The Traditional Chinese IME Pad is covered in detail on the advanced features page. On this page we'll go on discussing the new handwriting features in Windows x only.

The Simplified Chinese IME Pad never supported handwriting, only radical and punctuation lookup, merely anyway that IME Pad is missing from Windows 10 at launch. I track items like that in my FAQ article titled Missing, Broken, and Merely Plain Lame Chinese Features in Windows 10, and will update that listing as things change.

Now let's return to discussing the Touch Keyboard. Later on handwriting is downloaded and installed per the instructions at the peak of this page, you'll find options where the "Download" buttons had been:
• in your Traditional Chinese linguistic communication options, you lot'll discover "Recognize rarely used Chinese, Kanji, or Hanja characters when converting handwriting to typed text", and
• in your Simplified Chinese linguistic communication options, yous'll detect an optional automatic Simplified/Traditional or Traditional/Simplified converter.

The Traditional Chinese "rare character" option disappeared from my system after the July 2016 one-year Anniversary Update. Perhaps at present it'south the default? It should exist: limiting the number of characters was a goal for older systems with memory and speed limitations nigh of us no longer accept to worry most.

The Simplified Chinese options also include "recognize italic handwriting" option. "Italic"? That may or may not be intended for Chinese, unless it somehow also helps with cursive/grass characters. There is dissever setting for "personalization" that may be more than useful: come across "To train handwriting recognition" below.

To start using the handwriting characteristic, you'll demand to find the touch keyboard.

It lives in a little button on the taskbar until you need information technology:

If you practice not see that button in your taskbar:

• right-click on the taskbar (or on a touch screen, long-press and release),

• in the menu that pops upward,
select "Show touch keyboard button".

After you click (or touch on) that push button on taskbar, the touch keyboard will announced. To switch to handwriting mode, first click the selector push at the lower right of the keyboard, and so select the handwriting icon from the four icons that appear higher up:

This is the touch keyboard in handwriting mode at full-screen width,

and this is the same impact keyboard later on I clicked the control circled in ruby to minimize the size.

When in this mode, the bear on keyboard can also be dragged anywhere on the screen.

On my basic Chinese input setup pages yous'll find more than nearly customizing the Touch Keyboard for handwriting and phonetic input.

To train handwriting recognition to improve recognize your own style, become to the classic Language control panel. From where we are in the above screen shots, go back one page to Settings and then click the bottom link that says "Additional date, time, & regional settings." Or, you tin can enter "Language" in taskbar search and select the control console offered at the top of those search results.

On the archetype Language command console, keep to the options for a Chinese region.

On in the Linguistic communication options panel, click on "Personalize handwriting recognition".

Information technology will so walk you through the entry and sampling of some characters to aid information technology larn your handwriting personality.

On my basic Chinese input setup pages you'll find more well-nigh customizing the Touch on Keyboard for handwriting and phonetic input.

OK? That's all I've got on the handwriting characteristic. I don't use it much, and from the examples above you can probably tell why. There'southward a reason they telephone call me "Pinyin Joe". :-) But feel free to transport questions, comments, or suggestions anytime.

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Speech

After you first downloading the spoken communication features, you'll notice there are two kinds: spoken communication recognition, and text-to-speech.

The options for this are in the Spoken language section of Time & Linguistic communication settings. At the top, you'll find the language menu, and an option to recognize non-native accents. Given the wide range of accents amongst even native Chinese speakers, I recommend anybody check that box.

(In my global The states English system, I've been unable to get Traditional Chinese to show upwardly in that menu no matter what else I try. As I don't use this feature, I may not explore further and may non notice if this suddenly begins working subsequently an update. Please let me know if you have a solution.)

At the bottom of the same settings panel, you'll find a push for getting started with speech recognition, and a link to more than settings in the archetype control panel. I take not done any of this.

For text-to-speech communication, I was able to get the both Cantonese and Mandarin voices for Traditional Chinese by going to the "Region & linguistic communication" section, removing Hong Kong, calculation and removing Taiwan, and then adding Hong Kong again. You see the results here: three female and 3 male voices.

I seldom use this feature, only I did requite it a try, only to discover that I have no thought how to put these new voices to piece of work. As of the Windows ten launch, Windows Narrator and Office Speak retained their own lists of voices, and those lists were seemingly unrelated to the card shown here. I'll take to explore this further when I have more than fourth dimension, but for all I know this may exist fixed in a time to come update. Please permit me know if you understand how this is supposed to work.

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Language packs

Language packs modify the Start menu and other parts of the system into another linguistic communication. That's all they do. They are non necessary for reading and writing Chinese, and they will not fix apps with garbled text or other communication issues.

Afterwards a language pack is downloaded the first fourth dimension, it will exist regularly updated via the Microsoft Shop rather than through Windows Update. Microsoft began using the Store for this purpose a year or 2 after Windows 10 was launched.

You tin can switch display language someday by going dorsum to the Languages section of Time & Language settings, selecting a linguistic communication to reveal the three buttons, and then selecting "Gear up as default".

So that linguistic communication volition move to the height of the column, and you'll see the bulletin "Will be display language subsequently adjacent sign-in":

You don't need to restart, just sign out and sign back in again (or every bit nosotros used to say, log out and log in). But "Sign out" is not on the power button. That would exist too like shooting fish in a barrel... Windows 10 hides this in ii or three places, and I volition bear witness you 1 here.

Correct-click on the First push button (or on a impact screen, long-press and then release), and you'll find it here:

When yous sign back in, your organization will be in the new linguistic communication. This is a comparison of the Files/Settings/Power/Apps section of the Showtime menu in English language, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese:

OK? Good luck finding your way dwelling over again, Dorothy. :-) Just kidding. In the new Windows x settings panels, everything is in exactly the same identify in all languages. So, just follow my instructions above. When you get back to that final right-click on the Start bill of fare, look in the same identify for "Sign out": "注销(I)" in Simplified or "登出(I)" in Traditional Chinese.

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Previous pages:
• Overview of Chinese features in Windows viii and 10: fonts, IMEs, and more than
• Language and IME/keyboard setup
• Traditional character Pinyin input: 2 alternatives
• Simplified character Pinyin input: the MSZY alternative

Next pages:
• Advanced features: desktop linguistic communication bar, IME Pad, hotkeys, and more
• Help files - in English!
• Missing, cleaved, and just plainly lame Chinese features

Often asked questions:
• How to enter the alphabetic character "ü" ("u" with an umlaut, the 2 dots above the letter)
• How to open up the candidate list in Microsoft Bopomofo
• How to open the candidate listing in Microsoft Pinyin
• How to select the Cantonese Phonetic IME (CPIME)

See also:
Zhuyin input, symbols, & Zhuyin/Pinyin "cherry-red text" (Win7, but universal. Includes give-and-take of the MS Word Phonetic Guide and ruby fonts.)

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