The English-To-Chinese Typing Method maps each Chinese character to a corresponding English word or its Chinese pronunciation or other commands. Its advantage is that you can no longer worry about the stupid rules of Cangjie or the many inaccuracies of Pinyin typing method. It is also very easy to learn since there are only a few thousand English words to remember.
Ok, it's not fully English to Chinese, as the commands have a mix of English words and Putonghua pronounciation and other stuff. But this method makes each character's code more readable compared to other input methods like Cangjie, and makes each command only have one corresponding character.
Currently it supports about 3,100 chinese characters.
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For commonly used Chinese characters, the corresponding english word or mandarin pronunciation is assigned to it.
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When there are two words for the same character, the shorter one is preferred.
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For uncommon characters, we may decompose it into smaller components and get the english word for each component.
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For cantonese characters, we may use its pronunciation
- a: quantifier
- c: catonese
- p: putonghua
- s: simplified
- t: text version of something, sometimes used when original word is a reserved command
- v: pronounciation is (used when there are no good command for the word)
- alt: alternate word
- anc: ancient
- EB: earthly branches 地支
- CS: celestial stems 天干
- U: union (juxtaposition)
- L: less (subtract something)
- 亻: man
- 氵: water
- 糹: silk
- 釒: gold
- 車: car
- 扌: hand
- 土: dirt
- 日: sun
- 木: wood
- 王: king
- 艹: grass
- ⺮: bamboo
- 女: girl
- 穴: cave
- 宀: roof
- 耳: ear
- 广: plaza
- 礻: god
- 衤: cloth
- 彳: walk
- 阝: b
- 忄: heart
- ⺼: meat
- 月: moon
- 雨: rain
- 米: meter
- 刂: ln
- ⻊: foot
- 山: hill
- 虫: bug
- 目: eye
- 辶: raft
- 舟: boat
- 訁: lan
- 犭: dog
- 疒: sick
- 田: farm
- 革: leather