Ok well Zoba left and I'm sad. Also some people had their CBverseries. So it's really bittersweet round here. 

Was it Jingleball?

When I type, I spell out the pinyin (with the same alphabet as English) and a lot of character options show up that I can click on (Chinese has a lot of homonyms, basically) or manually write on a touchscreen.

No idea about algebra though.

@Admins I included some characters in Japanese, 'a,' 'i,' 'u,' 'e,' 'o,' 'kanji,' 'feeling,' 'small,' and 'dog.'" I've been careful to always define what they mean and it's only a few that I think illustrate my points, but I know the CB doesn't support other languages so if you have to delete them no worries and sorry for the inconvenience! 

For Japanese, there are three alphabets: hiragana, katakana, and kanji. Hiragana (あいうえお - hiragana characters for "a i u e o") is the one most similar to an English alphabet: there are 46 basic characters, and almost all words can be written in hiragana. They're also used for things in sentences like particles. Katakana (アイウエオ - katakana characters for "a i u e o") has the same 46 basic characters but they look different. Katakana is used for words that are borrowed from other languages. Like my name (as I'm not Japanese) would be written in katakana, and a word like 'tomato' in katakana would be the characters to ma to (トマト - "tomato"). Kanji (漢字 - "kanji", hiragana equivalent かんじ) is what you see when you think of Japanese or Chinese characters (actually a lot of them came from Chinese, and 'kanji' literally means 'Chinese character'); there are thousands of them and they're often more complicated, representing a word or part of a word. Like there's a kanji for dog (犬, hiragana equivalent いぬ, pronounced "i nu"), and a kanji for child (子, hiragana equivalent こ, pronounced "ko"), and you could write small dog (子犬, pronounced "ko i nu") to get the equivalent of puppy. Kanji always have a hiragana equivalent, but some words don't use kanji only hiragana, and some words use a few characters of each. Katakana doesn't really mixes with other alphabets.

For typing on a computer, each key is a hiragana character. You'd just type out whatever you want to say in hiragana and then either use 'live conversion' where it autocorrects to the kanji, or press space and cycle through the options (as some kanji have the same hiragana spelling, think like homonyms. For example, '漢字' means 'Chinese character' and 感じ means 'feeling/impression' but both have the hiragana かんじ and are pronunced 'kanji'). Or in my case, I've never learned the layout of a Japanese keyboard, so I just type out the romanized version of each character and it auto-converts. So I'd type out t o and it'd convert to the hiragana character to (と). It's basically the same on a phone.

hopefully this is interesting! I have no idea how similar typing in Chinese is (probably fairly?), and idk where you're going with the algebra idea lol

Thank you for this detailed explanation, Hex. I'll allowing your full text.

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I basically use letters as pinyin, which are letters that spell out the chinese word. Though there is also zhu yin, which is Taiwanese technically, but is composed of different looking characters that don't really get included in keyboards. Usually keyboards look the same, its just that the letters after being spelled out into a word transforms into a Chinese character.

I have no idea about algebra though... 

Wow, thanks guys - that's so interesting :) I really didn't have any idea about any of this lol. It's fascinating to see how other cultures have such different ways of doing things.