Use korean keyboard on iphone5/26/2023 ![]() So for "ma," there are something like 80 possible words for the sound. Just like with English, sometimes even the same sound means a different thing (e.g., "plane," "plain"). There are five tones in Mandarin (high flat, rising, dipping down then up, sharp drop, and neutral). That means you can say "ma" in many different ways and it means different things. The thing is, Chinese is a tonal language. ![]() When you have the Chinese font selected, you just type in a pinyin word using English characters, like "ma." Basically, you download a font package that puts a little icon on your task bar to switch between writing in English and writing in Chinese. I can't speak for the others, but most Chinese keyboards work using the pinyin system ( ), which is a transliteration of the sounds of the language (so that it can be written in the letters of the English alphabet).
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