I haven’t really started learning chinese, but I toggle the pinyin option in linux and it’s pretty cool. pinyin is the standard way of phonetically spelling chinese with latin letters. As I understand it, you type the pinyin (without diacritics), and the autocomplete-like function usually figures out what you mean. 你好 . I got that by selecting pinyin mode, typing “nihao” then hitting space. As I typed, it offered a bunch of different options for other ways the pinyin could be interpreted