How can chinese people type chinese characters on a computer keyboard?

There is a system for writing Chinese characters with English letters called Pinyin. If you want to write the character for horse on your computer, which is pronounced "ma", you type in "ma", and hit a special key on your keyboard that shows you all the characters that are pronounced "ma". Then you click on the character you want, in this case 馬, and it shows up on the screen.

I am a Chinese and I find typing chinese characters easier using Han Yu Pin Yin - typing the pronunciation of the characters. There are other alternatives, but I would say most people typed via Han Yu Pin Yin.

There's a keyboard for Chinese, too.

Chinese input Methods : Pinyin, Chang jie , Quick etc.

or

Chinese handwriting pad,

They get a special keyboard with 1000's of keys and load the special program to allow all of their characters.

On my iPhone keyboard you have to draw in the character

by pronunciation

or

by parts

there are characters on your keyboard so small you cant see. the chinese can cause they have sharp squinty eyes.