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  "title": "Ian's Digital Garden",
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      "id": "https://ianwwagner.com//typing-hanja-on-macos.html",
      "url": "https://ianwwagner.com//typing-hanja-on-macos.html",
      "title": "Typing Hanja on macOS",
      "content_html": "<p>이제 漢字 쓰는 方法을 알게 되었다!</p>\n<p>I was today years old when I finally figured out how to type Hanja (characters from China that were historically used to write Korean).\nIt struck me as very strange that this didn't seem possible in any of the obvious input methods.\nIn Japanese, for example, you get search-as-you-type style suggestions popping up as you type,\nwhether in Kana or Romaji mode.\nIn fact, until now, I mostly relied on my prior study of Japanese,\nswitched to that layout, and typed in a Japanese reading.\nThis was quite clunky though as I am now learning the Korean readings.</p>\n<p>I even asked several Koreans if they knew how,\nand none did (at least for macOS), since it's relatively uncommon to use them these days,\nparticularly for younger people.\nWindows keyboards have a dedicated Hanja mode key,\nbut I've never seen an Apple keyboard with this,\nand I'm not even totally sure if macOS understands the key code\n(if anyone knows, let me know on Mastodon).</p>\n<p>It turns out this IS in fact possible; it's just uncharacteristically buried.\nThe trick is to press option+return.\nThen you'll get a menu where you can select Hanja matches\nfor the previous &quot;word&quot; (it seems to rely on spacing, which is not always completely consistent in colloquial writing,\nbut it's not too hard to get used to.)\nI found tip on Apple's <a href=\"https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/korean-input-method/welcome/mac\">website</a>\nvia a search.</p>\n<p>This is probably only relevant to like 2 other people on the internet, but I thought I'd spread the word\nsince it was relatively hard to find!</p>\n",
      "summary": "",
      "date_published": "2026-03-07T00:00:00-00:00",
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      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Ian Wagner",
          "url": "https://fosstodon.org/@ianthetechie",
          "avatar": "media/avi.jpeg"
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        "macos",
        "i18n",
        "korean",
        "languages"
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      "language": "en"
    }
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