Traditional Chinese Input Method -- Combine characters?

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Traditional Chinese Input Method -- Combine characters?

I use OS X's IM to type Chinese characters alot and recently stumbled into an ancient word (was doing some classical literature stuff) which I couldn't find it anywhere using Pinyin or the Character Palette. This word can be made up from two singular word, one on each side. Now my question is, does anyone know a way to 'create' such word or 'combine' two Chinese words to form one single word?

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Posted on Nov 13, 2007 9:23 PM

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Tom Gewecke

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Nov 14, 2007 5:16 AM in response to muddymop

I use OS X's IM to type Chinese characters alot and recently stumbled into an ancient word (was doing some classical literature stuff) which I couldn't find it anywhere using Pinyin or the Character Palette. This word can be made up from two singular word, one on each side. Now my question is, does anyone know a way to 'create' such word or 'combine' two Chinese words to form one single word?

There is no way to create Chinese characters which have not been encoded. But the chances are good that it is already available -- you may just need to install a font which covers the CJK Extension B. If you could provide the the unicode values of the two components, I can try to find it in tables I have.

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Nov 14, 2007 5:20 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

The word I'm trying to type (it was a writer's name) is a combination of the Chinese words "Field" (7530) and "Minister" (81E3).

If you take a look at the Chinese word of "Honourable Lady" (59EC), it's similar, just that the radical on the left is changed to "Field" (rather than the original "girl").

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Tom Gewecke

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Nov 14, 2007 6:42 PM in response to muddymop

The word I'm trying to type (it was a writer's name) is a combination of the Chinese words "Field" (7530) and "Minister" (81E3).

It's U+24C65. Unfortunately to see it in the Character Palette or elsewhere you would have to have a CJK Extension B font installed -- MingLiU ExtB or Han Nom B or SimSun Founder Extended. I think MingLiU comes with Vista. Han Nom B can be found here:

http://vietunicode.sourceforge.net/fonts/fonts_hannom.html

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muddymop Author

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Nov 14, 2007 8:28 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

OK, I've downloaded and installed them. Now I managed to find the particular character that I want.

Thank you so much for your help!

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