Sogou Pinyin
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 Screenshot of Sogou Pinyin | |
| Developer(s) | Sohu |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 2006 |
| Stable release | 11.5
/ 17 December 2021 |
| Operating system | Windows XP,Windows Vista,Windows 7,Windows 8,Windows 10,Ubuntu,Mac OS X,Symbian S60,Windows Mobile,Android,iOS,OpenHarmony,HarmonyOS |
| Available in | Simplified Chinese,Traditional Chinese |
| Type | Input method |
| Website | pinyin |
Sogou Pinyin Method(Chinese:SưuCẩuBính âmThâu nhậpPháp;pinyin:Sōugǒu Pīnyīn Shūrùfǎ) is a popularChinese Pinyin input method editordeveloped bySohu.com, Inc.under itssearch enginebrand name,Sogou.
Sogou Pinyin is a dominant input software in China. By July 2011, Sogou Pinyin had an 83.6% penetration rate with more than 300 million users.[1]
Features
[edit]Sogou Pinyin provides features for customizing its dictionary, appearance and function. The dictionary of Sogou Pinyin can be enriched by adding so-calledcell dictionaries,which contain words in special fields.[2]The appearance of Sogou Pinyin can be changed using skins and animation.[3]The function of Sogou Pinyin can be extended using extensions such as mouse-writing.[4]Beside Pinyin input, it also includesstroke count methodinput.
Copyright conflict with Google Pinyin
[edit]In April 2007, Sohu threatened to sue Google because after Google Pinyin's initial release, it was soon discovered that Google Pinyin's dictionary database contained employee names of Sogou Pinyin.[5]On April 8, 2007, Google admitted that they used "non-Google database resources". Shortly thereafter, a new version of Google Pinyin was released which no longer appeared to be based on Sogou's database.[6]
Sogou Cloud Pinyin
[edit]In 2009, Sogou launched aBookmarkletnamedSogou Cloud Pinyin(Sưu cẩu vân thâu nhập pháp) that can allow any major browser to input Chinese characters on a webpage without installing any new software or plugins. It uses JavaScript and Ajax on the browser and apparently cloud computing technology on the servers.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"Sogou Sets Sights on Google China".
- ^"Sogou Pinyin Cell Dictionaries".
- ^"Sogou Pinyin Skins".
- ^"Sogou Pinyin Extensions".
- ^Lemon, Sumner (2007-04-10)."Sohu Threatens to Sue Google".PC World.Archived fromthe originalon 2012-09-10.Retrieved2023-11-13.
- ^Lemon, Sumner (2007-04-09)."Google Admits Using Outside Source for Chinese App".PC World.Archived fromthe originalon 2012-09-08.Retrieved2023-11-13.