Method and system for inputting chinese characters

摘要

A method and system for inputting Chinese characters from an English keyboard into a computer. The invention is implemented via a software application that runs on a computer to which a physical or virtual keyboard device is connected. The software application has a database of English character sequences each of which is associated with a Chinese character. The software application captures character sequences generated by the user operating the keyboard, and searches its database for matches to the captured sequence.