Last updated on January 13th, 2014 at 03:54 pm
Google Chinese PinYin Input Method, free Chinese word typing tool that introduced by Google Labs (China) to ease Chinese users entering Chinese wording on Google search services. Beside entering Chinese word on Google search engine, you can even utilizing Google Chinese pinyin to type Chinese wording on any Windows text application.
Google Chinese pinyin is basically powered by Google IME tools, which allows user simplifying Chinese word typing in Pin yin to output Simplified Chinese characters directly in any application without hassle of copying and pasting.
Although there are a lot of Chinese dictionary software comes with Chinese Pin Yin wording features. But Google Chinese Pin Yin Input Method has their own unique features:
- Intelligent sentence building – Google PinYin Input Method services is smart enough builds sentences for you based on the intention of a long sentence and the phrase, reduce the time to choose the correct words.
- Popular words – Google Pin Yin Input Method able integrate popular vocabularies and phrases from Internet and web searches for richer phrases database. Beside that, All popular vocabularies and phrases entry will stored at Google database as references.
- Google Acc Sync – You can sync your Chinese input habit and personalized words with Google account and apply it on other computer.
- One-click search – you can straight forward search any word Google PinYin Input search box by simply clicking on a button
- English input – Google PinYin Input Method able to give English word based suggestion on the first few letters typed. Meanwhile, there are no need switch input language to English or Chinese.
- Chinese pronounce – Support Hanyu Pin Yin acronym and fuzzy phonetic for speakers from different areas that may pronounce a alphabet differently. When enabled, sounds in zh, sh, and ch can be represented by z, s, h.
Google Chinese PinYin is free to download and supported Windows platform like 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7, Windows 8 and works on Internet Explorer 6.0, 6.5 and above.
How to use Google Chinese PinYin
1. Once Google pinyin chinese input method is downloaded and installed on you computer, you can activate it by pressing ALT + Left Shift on your keyboard.
2. Point your windows cursor on any text input form or text application (notepad, word or etc).
3. Then you can start to type using chinese pinyin method. Google chinese pinyin input method will automatically popup and suggest the nearest possible chinese character to you.
4. To select the chinese character, you can just enter the number beside the character or use the keyboard ” Space bar” to select the 1st suggested character.
PS: if you want to change back to english character, just simply press ALT + Left shift again. Then Google Chinese Pinyin Input method functionality will be turning off.
If you looking for free chinese word input software, i’m will highly recommend your Google Chinese pinyin input method.
PS: Google PinYin IME Android also available download on Google Play Store
Download Google PinYin Installer Download
Updates: Google Pinyin input method version 3 beta is available download.
Google Pinyin Input Method 3.0 (beta) introduces a new English writing assistant functions, which the function will translate back Chinese character to english wording. Compared with the official release, Google Pinyin Input Method 3.0 (beta) update more frequently.
Download Google Pinyin Input Method 3 (Beta)
PS: Google Pinyin 3 is support Windows Xp, Vista and 7 only at this moment.
Nothing happened after I installed the Google Chinese Input software. There was no sign shown anywhere although I could confirm it showed in the list of Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel.
My operating system is Windows XP. I suspect if the input method is still not meature enough for everybody’s using.
Anybody has the same problem?
Hit ALT-SHIFT and see if it comes up for you. All of the instructions for the software are in Chinese, so it’s a bit of a learning curve (especially if you read Chinese as slowly as I do), but once you get the interface hotkeys worked out, it works extremely well, I love it.
Hi does every know where i can down load this software, please send me a link to get the place. Thanks,
I download this software, but nothing come out too. Hi Ctrl space bar or shift space bar, still nothing appeared.
Unable to activate the software?
I’ve downloaded it but the characters in the googlebar aren’t showing up! it’s taking me waaay too long to go through it all and find the right character!
I’m still looking for the language supprot thing that we’re supposed to downlaod to help that but I can’t find it!
Thank you for the “Hit ALT-SHIFT” suggestion. It works! I had previously used Google pinyin before. Recently I reinstall Windows XP, and installed Google Pinyin. I can see it’s installed in Add and Remove Programs, but Google Pinyin won’t start or will not activate! Ctrl-Space would not work at this point. However, Alt-Shft seems to have “activated” google pinyin once and for all. After that, I can use Ctrl-Space to turn it on and off. Of course you need to do it when the cursor in in an editor or a browser page form input field.
Apparently, you need to massage the settings here to ensure Google pinyin shows up conveniently for you in Windows XP:
Regional and language options
Languages tab
Details button
Default input language section,
select “Chinese PRC – google …”
Key settings button to open “Advanced Key Settings” dialog box
and play with the various setting there.
Windows XP is complicated! Try Linux Ubuntu instead. But Google Pinyin does not support Ubuntu, rather you use some other input programs, like SCIM there.
I’m using Mac and I wanted to download it.. So… can u make one that mac can use? I really wanted to download it… if there is please email me. TQ.
@K.Y
At this moment, Google Pin Yin only support Windows OS only.
Meanwhile, Mac OS by default already support chinese character. You can try it out on Mac
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@Jason
How to launch it ?
you have to search on your computer “GooglePinyinUpdater”
i found it in Documents and Settings>USER > Application Data > Google > Pinyin)
you click on it, he will try to update, EVEN IF he’s updated BUT it will after stay in the tray so you can use it
You should have to do that everytime you start Windows.
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I can’t read Chinese well enough to understand all the things they have checked, so I don’t know what to do. I am a very beginner and so I can’t make heads or tails of it.
Isn’t there an English version? If we could all read Chinese, we wouldn’t need to use pinyin input in the first place.
control panel ->
Regional and language options
Languages tab
Details button
Default input language section,
select “Chinese PRC – google …”
remove any MS pinyin input you may have
that did it for me. good luck!
hi, i know this thread is old, however i wanted to ask…is there a way for it to write out pinyin instead of characters? for example, if i write out nihao, instead of having the characters come out, it’ll suggest ni hao with the tones above them