Format Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text

You can enter text in many different languages, including several different writing systems for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, using the international keyboards available on your device. When you enable any of the Chinese, Japanese, or Korean keyboards on your mobile device, Pages provides some language-specific text-formatting features, including emphasis styles, list styles, and phonetic guides.

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Important: The instructions below assume you’ve enabled at least one Chinese, Japanese, or Korean keyboard on your device. To enable international keyboards, open Settings on your device, tap General, tap Keyboard, then tap Keyboards and add a new keyboard.

Add Chinese, Japanese, or Korean emphasis marks

You can add emphasis marks that are commonly used with Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text. For example, using a Chinese keyboard, you can apply Boten dots below or above the text, or a wavy underline. With Japanese text you can add plain dots or sesame dots.

  1. Switch your keyboard to a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean keyboard.

  2.  Select one or more characters of Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text, then tap the Format button.

    If you don’t see text controls, tap Cell or Text.

  3. Tap an emphasis mark button.

    The formatting options depend on the current keyboard.

Use a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean list style

You can apply Chinese, Japanese, and Korean list styles (specifically, the bullet style or numbering system) to a list written in any language.

  1. Select the list items with the numbering or lettering you want to change.

  2. Tap the Format button, then tap Text or Cell.

  3. Tap Bullets & Lists, then tap a list style.

    The formatting options depend on which keyboards are enabled.

Use Chinese government standard font sizes

If you need to use the standard government sizes for text in your document, you can show these sizes along with point sizes in the font size menu.

  1. Set your iPad region to China—in Settings, tap General > Language & Region > Region > China, then tap Done.

  2. If your document was open when you changed this setting, close the document and reopen it.

  3. Tap the Font size button above the keyboard, then tap a font size.

    The Font size button on the right side of the iPad keyboard with the font size menu open. Chinese government standard font sizes appear at the top of the menu with point sizes below.
See alsoFormat a document for another language