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Typing 略 in MS IME (please help)


JimmySeal

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Sorry for the n00b question but...略 seems to have a rather strange pinyin representation: lüè. I've tried typing this into my IME as lve4, luue4, lu:e4, lue4, but can't get it to work right. How do I enter this pinyin combination?

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略 掠 略

I just typed lue and it popped up. Worked on both MS IME 3.0 and Sogou (which you might want to look at, much preferable. Do a search on here if interested)

Edit: I was only slower than gougou because I got looked up in Wenlin. It wasn't there.

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That must be close to a world record on response time on a new thread.
We're all getting ready for the Olympics here!

Does anybody know why this happens, by the way? Is there no unified way of representing those characters in pinyin? My mobile phone has them as lve.

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As far as I'm aware there isn't supposed to be any dots on the u in "lue".

It's the same rule as for "xu" or "qu". The pronunciation of u in that combination is always ü and so the dots are not necessary.

The umlaut ü character is only used in positions where both pronunciations are possible eg. "lü" and "nü" vs. "lu" and "nu".

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