07:36 Nov 4, 2013 |
Chinese to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Engineering (general) | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Michelle Deeter United Kingdom Local time: 18:25 | ||||||
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first in the alphabet, first in alphabetical order Explanation: When Android processes characters with two pronunciations, it uses the class “HanziToPinyin.java.” This is a converting class that reads the Chinese character’s Unicode and generates the corresponding Pinyin sortKey. When Chinese is inputted, it will enter this conversion class to generate a sortKey. We discovered that “沈” (chen or shen) was analyzed and treated as “chen,” and in the dictionary we saw that “沈” is a heteronym with two pronunciations, including “chen.” The thing is, we very rarely use the pronunciation of “chen.” However, when Android used Unicode to map the pronunciation and there were two pronunciations, it would automatically choose the pronunciation that comes first in the alphabet. (heteronym is a technical term, and you can stick to character with two pronunciations if you like. I think it will be clear whether you use alphabetical order or comes first in the alphabet) Example sentence(s):
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chen/shen Explanation: Don't assume that Pinyin is the sole romanization system whereas Wale Giles and Yale, and many other dialect systems had been in place well before the outcome of Pinyin in the 1950s, e.g. Cantonese and Toisanese. That is why the spelling of Mao Tze Tung did come on record well before Mao Ze Dong. |
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When a character can be pronounced as either 'chen' or 'shen', 'chen' will automatically show up sin Explanation: This is supposed to be the way the software for typing in the computer. |
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