Dayi method
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Dayi is a system for entering Chinese characters on a standard QWERTY keyboard using a set of 46 character components. A character is built by combining up to four of the 46 characters, using a system
A Chinese keyboard with Dayi hints printed on the lower-right corners of the keys. (Printed on the lower-left and upper-right corners are Cangjie hints and Bopomofo symbols respectively.)
Keyboard layout
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A keyboard layout is any specific physical, visual, or functional arrangement of key switches, legends, or key mapping of a keyboard. Layouts are used on computer keyboards, for virtual keyboards, or
Dayi method
…typing Taiwanese addresses), using a system similar to that of Cangjie, but is decomposed in stroke order instead of in geometric shape in Cangjie. On most keyboards in Taiwan, most keys show four symbols. On the keys, the Latin letters are in the upper left, Bopomofo symbols on the upper right, Cangjie symbols on the lower…
MIT "space-cadet" keyboard, a pre-ISO/IEC 9995 keyboard with a large number of modifier keys. It was equipped with four keys for bucky bits (Control, Meta, Hyper, and Super); and three shift keys, called "shift", "top", and "front".
4800-52 mainframe / dumb terminal keyboard, c. mid-1980s. There is an obscure configuration of modifier and arrow keys, line feed key, break key, blank keys, and repeat key.
Keyboard of a Letter-Printing Telegraph Set built by Siemens and Halske in Russia c. 1900
A visual layout consisting of both factory-printed symbols and customized stickers