Panda Zhuyin

Panda Zhuyin

Bopomofo & Taiwanese Hokkien

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  • April 15, 2026
  • August 19, 2026

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Panda Zhuyin — steady bopomofo and Taiwanese typing. A keyboard that packs 37 bopomofo symbols into a few large keys: tap for the center, flick four directions for the rest. Every key is "center + four directions" — wherever you tap or flick, you get one definite sound. Inspired by Japanese flick keyboards. Initials on the left, medials in the middle, finals on the right — following bopomofo's own structural grouping, so there is nothing new to memorize. Mandarin only uses 412 actual syllables, so impossible combinations are grayed out. Each key big enough you won't tap the wrong one. New in 2.0: Taiwanese Hokkien keyboard · Type Taiwanese with extended phonetic symbols: all 7 tones, entering tones, and nasalized finals · Taiwanese lexicon cross-checked from four public dictionary sources · Custom dictionary now supports a Taiwanese category with auto-inferred readings · Romanization lookup panel: per-syllable cards mapping phonetic symbols to Tai-lo and POJ · Select any text and replace it with its romanization · Learn as you type: per-key labels show Hanyu Pinyin on Mandarin keys, Tai-lo or POJ on Taiwanese keys New English and symbol keyboards · Standard QWERTY layout; swipe down on a key to type uppercase; European accented letters included · Halfwidth and fullwidth symbol layouts redesigned; punctuation commits directly Make the keyboard yours · Theme editor: colors, fonts, opacity, borders, and backgrounds (solid, gradient, or photo) · Five built-in fonts with continuous weight adjustment · Glass finish: translucent keys with a subtle edge highlight, tuned for light and dark Features · Open-source Homa composer for more accurate long-sentence conversion · Custom dictionary + auto-learning (fact, not prediction) · iCloud Sync (opt-in) mirrors to your own private iCloud space — never through any panda-zhuyin server · Candidate tabs: frequency / single characters / symbols · Emoji candidates and symbol dictionary · Chinese numeral and date-time input · Spacebar long-press cursor glide · One-handed mode and landscape layout · Full VoiceOver support across the keyboard · Extended bopomofo (opt-in) for Old Mandarin Privacy · No outbound network calls — the keyboard is fully offline · Your input never leaves your device · Auto-learning data stays local · "Allow Full Access" is used only for haptic feedback (an Apple platform requirement); no data is transmitted either way About the subscription (Panda Supporter) Core typing is free forever. Supporter is an auto-renewable subscription (NT$30/month or NT$290/year) that unlocks appearance extras: featured effect themes, font switching, glass-finish color sets, and background gradients. Cancel anytime in Manage Subscriptions. Terms: https://erikyin.net/panda-zhuyin/terms.html Privacy: https://erikyin.net/panda-zhuyin/privacy.html Who this is not for (honestly) · You type comfortably on the built-in bopomofo keyboard — it may already be enough · You want cloud AI prediction — Gboard or SwiftKey fits better · You don't type bopomofo or Taiwanese Requires iOS 18 or later.
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What's New in Panda Zhuyin

2.5.0

August 19, 2026

Panda Zhuyin 2.5.0 Typing initials only · When you type just the initials, mid-sentence positions used to accept only a handful of characters, so the result often read oddly. Every character can take part now, and the natural phrasing comes first in the candidate bar · Press a single key on its own and the first candidate follows everyday speech, not written-text frequency · The neutral-tone key at the end of a sentence now leads with the particles that belong there, and characters after common connectives are picked for how they read together · Names and terms you added yourself now show up in whole-sentence candidates, even from initials or untoned input · Long initial-only strings respond about ten times faster per key, with the same candidates Learning and candidate order · A combination you picked segment by segment really does move to the front when you type it again, initials included · A character you once picked on its own is no longer pushed into the tail of a combination you never demonstrated · Rare words no longer hold the front spot on length alone; when two parses have the same word count, the one that reads better wins Themes and appearance (Supporter subscription; typing features stay free) · Four new featured themes, each with a light and a dark version. One of them outlines every key in a color set by its phonetic role · The glass finish was rebuilt: translucent keys with an edge highlight, the same look across iOS versions, and no flicker when you switch. "Liquid Glass" is now called "Glass Finish" · The three original packs get brighter dark-mode accents and text tinted to each pack · The built-in pixel font is now GNU Unifont with Taiwan-standard forms: 16x16, full strokes, look-alike characters easier to tell apart, and far fewer missing characters in Taiwanese Taiwanese · The 170 loanwords in the Ministry of Education dictionary appendix, most of them without a Han spelling, can now be typed as phonetic symbols and are marked in the candidate bar; 87 come with a matching emoji · Variant Han spellings now follow the Ministry dictionary, with its readings and sources added, so candidate order tracks the dictionary · Selecting text shows the standard reading again: alternate, colloquial, and regional-accent readings all sort after it, and the choice no longer changes between keyboard launches · The annotation in the candidate bar follows the notation you chose Fixes · Two words could not produce their emoji since 2.0.0 - fixed · Taiwanese: typing without tone marks no longer leaves entering-tone words unreachable · The Han tab of the Taiwanese lookup follows your theme font and text size

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