Computer Keyboard 键盘 -- Ting -- Chinese/English

ampersand (&) is the mark of "and" (definition of ampersand)

& [=and] 的记号名称

& (=and) de ji4hao4 ming2cheng1

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Chrystal

backspace

退格

tui4ge2

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

character (computer character -- a symbol in an alphabet, number system, or general reference for Chinese character -- a character can be a dash, comma, equals sign...)

字符

zi4fu2

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Fred	Sarah

Chinese character coding input method

汉字编码输入方法

Han4zi4 bian1ma3 shu1ru4 fang1fa3

Wang Jin	Huang Jiali	Cao Hui	Shu Chang
Jeremy	Scott

colon

冒号

mao4hao4

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

comma

逗号

dou4hao4

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

F key, function key

功能键

gong1neng2jian4

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

control key

控制键

kong4zhi4 jian4

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

dash

破折号

po4zhe2hao4

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

to delete, to cancel

删除

shan1chu2

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

enter/return key

回车键

hui2che1jian4

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

global enterprise services

全球企业服务

quan2qiu2 qi3ye4 fu2wu4

Li Chunjiang

equals sign

等号

deng3hao4

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

exclamation point

叹号

tan4 hao4

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

I spilled my tea on the keyboard, what am I going to do?

我把茶洒在键盘上了，我该怎么办呀？

Wo3 ba3 cha2 sa3 zai4 jian4pan2shang le, wo3 gai1 zen3me ban4 ya?

Feng Xie	Cheng Hong	Du Feng	Li Chunjiang	Gu Zheng
Cherie	James	Glison

She started as a hacker and now owns her own software company.

起先她是一个黑客，现在她拥有一家软件公司。

Qi3xian2 ta1 shi4 yi2 ge4 hei1ke4, xian4zai4 ta1 yong4you3 yi4 jia1 ruan3jian4 gong1si1.

hyphen

连字号

lian2zi4hao4

Du Feng	Deng Yichen	Wang Chen	Zhou Hui	Ren Shuang

hyphen

连字符

lian2zi4fu2

Sun Xiaomei
Sarah

Chinese speech input

汉语语音输入

Han4yu3 yu3yin1 shu1ru4

Wang Jin	Huang Jiali	Cao Hui	Shu Chang
Jeremy	Scott

Chinese character input

汉字输入

Han4zi4 shu1ru4

Wang Jin	Huang Jiali	Cao Hui	Shu Chang
Jeremy	Scott

insert

插入

cha1ru4

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

to install (although there are two words only say one of them in oral Chinese - the choice is yours but an1 seems more common)

安装

an1zhuang1

Zhang Meng	Feng Xie	Li Zhen	Hou Ying	Shu Chang
Lynn	Dave	Brian

to log in, to log on, to enroll; log-in

zhu4ce4

Li Chunjiang

number pad

数字盘

shu4zi4pan2

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

number lock

数字锁定键

shu4zi4 suo3ding4 jian4

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

Chinese character output

汉字输出

Han4zi4 shu1chu1

Wang Jin	Huang Jiali	Cao Hui	Shu Chang
Jeremy	Scott

page down

下页

xia4 ye4

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

page up

上页

shang4 ye4

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

parentheses

括弧

kuo4hu2

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

brackets (square)

括号

kuo4hao4

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

percent sign (will also find "bai3fen1bi3fu2hao4" 百分比符号 but that isn't used orally)

百分号

bai3fen1hao4

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

period

句号

ju4hao4

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

plus sign

加号

jia1hao4

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

to hit, to press (hit or press a computer key)

打

da3

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

to press (computer - press a key)

压

ya1

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

question mark

问号

wen4hao4

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

semi-colon

分号

fen1hao4

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

backslash

反斜杠字符

fan3xie2gang4zi4fu2

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

slash

斜杠字符

xie2gang4zi4fu2

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

space bar (computer usage)

空格键

kong4ge2jian4

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

asterisk, star, * (keyboard symbol above the 8 on the QUERTY keyboard)

星号

xing1hao4

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Austin	Chrystal

system (used often in relation to computer systems)

系统

xi4tong3

Du Feng
Maggy

We learned to type in junior high school.

我们在中学学打字。

Wo3men zai4 zhong1xue2 xue2 da3zi4.

Li Yu Zheng	Li Zhen	Zhang Meng	Hua	Cao Hui
Karen	Dave