East Asian languages keyboards online

Languages in this family

East Asian languages brings together 4 keyboards: Chinese Pinyin Keyboard, Japanese Keyboard, Korean Hangul Keyboard, Vietnamese Keyboard. Each card below opens a complete page — virtual keyboard, transliteration engine, dictionaries and step-by-step content.

• Chinese Pinyin Keyboard (中文键盘, Chinese (Hanzi), China, Taiwan & Singapore): Type Chinese: enter pinyin and pick the character, or click the virtual keys. Simplified and traditional characters supported. (+2 variants, direct keys)
• Japanese Keyboard (にほんごキーボード / 日本語キーボード, Kana, Japan): Type Japanese with the romaji engine: “konnichiwa” becomes こんにちは. Kana layout and vocabulary resources included. (+3 variants, 212 transliteration rules)
• Korean Hangul Keyboard (한국어 키보드, Hangul, South & North Korea): Type Korean Hangul with smart jamo composition: “annyeong” becomes 안녕 automatically as you type. (+2 variants, direct keys)
• Vietnamese Keyboard (Bàn phím tiếng Việt, Latin + diacritics, Vietnam): Type Vietnamese with Telex, VNI and plain modes: “xin chào” is produced from “xin chao” + s as you type. (+3 variants, 40 transliteration rules)

Scripts in this family

4 scripts share this family: Chinese (Hanzi), Kana, Hangul, Latin + diacritics. Knowing which script your language uses avoids the most common beginner mistake — opening the right keyboard first.

Within one script, letters still differ: diacritics, extra consonants and vowel marks change from language to language, which is exactly why each member below keeps its own layout, engine and dictionary hub instead of sharing a generic one.

• Chinese (Hanzi): Chinese Pinyin Keyboard.
• Kana: Japanese Keyboard.
• Hangul: Korean Hangul Keyboard.
• Latin + diacritics: Vietnamese Keyboard.

Dictionaries across the family

Together, the 4 keyboard pages below gather about 40 dictionary and resource links: monolingual references, bilingual translators into French and English, grammar and conjugation guides, phrasebooks, plus encyclopedias and press in each language. Open any member, type a word once, and every compatible link receives it — the fastest way to compare how neighbouring languages treat the same concept.

Flagship references include Lexilogos — dictionnaire — each reachable in one click from its keyboard, with your typed word forwarded automatically.

Compare at a glance

Script, region, writing direction, engine and layout size side by side — pick the row that matches your target language, then open its keyboard.

How to choose your keyboard

Start from the language, not the script: Chinese Pinyin Keyboard and Vietnamese Keyboard may look related, but letter inventories, transliteration habits and dictionary resources differ. Open the two candidates and type the same greeting in both — the engine that guesses your words correctly is the right one.

All 4 keyboards share the same writing direction, so habits transfer directly from one to the next.

Transliteration mode exists on 2 of the 4 keyboards here: type the Latin transcription and the engine converts. On the others, click the virtual keys directly — each page documents its mode in the step-by-step guide, and the comparison table above tells you which is which before you open anything.

On mobile the choice matters even more: full-size touch keys and the same transliteration engines run on phones, so test your greeting on the device you will actually type on. Bookmark the winner — every keyboard page works offline once loaded and keeps your text private in the browser.