Pinyin Simplified MessagEase for Android
Good
No candidate list arises when I type.
1 star because it's unusable. Here are 2 main reasons why this feature of Messagease is not useful: 1) There are five different accents for every sound in chinese, namely the -, ˊ, ˇ, ˋ, ˙ accents. Normally, when you use pinyin, you key in english letters and then add one of these 5 accents to narrow down the possible word choices. Messagease doesn't provide the option of adding these accents, so when I try to type Pinyin, I always find myself with too many possible word choices. This makes typing chinese slow and cumbersome. 2) Some sounds are very common in chinese. Pinyin, by nature, uses the sound of a chinese word to search for and type the word. Therefore, if you happen to be looking for a word that has a very common sound but is very infrequently used, you might need to search through all the possibilities (which could be 3 pages long) to find it. When I try to use Pinyin in Messagease, it unfortunately truncates the possible word list, so it's IMPOSSIBLE to type uncommon words with common sounds. I can't type the word 倞, for example. I love Messagease (gave it 5 stars), but this feature is just ineffective. Will change to 5 stars they fix it.
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