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Alternatively, can you write the character by strokes (that the pinyin input recognizes it and that the character can be found among all the other stored characters)?

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    What are you asking? I can't really get it...
    – Mou某
    May 26, 2014 at 14:55
  • Writing biangbiang with pinyin that it becomes a character.
    – user76935
    May 26, 2014 at 14:57
  • Something I find interesting is on wiki it says "biáng" (2nd tone) but on 百度百科 it says "biàng" (4th tone). And what I heard was biàng. Hmm, I don't know who is correct.
    – Stan
    May 26, 2014 at 15:45
  • Possibly wiki isn't correct. Just guessing.
    – user76935
    May 26, 2014 at 15:52
  • Zisea says it's biang first tone.
    – Mou某
    May 27, 2014 at 0:49

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Phonetic Substitution

Although the character cannot currently be typed into a computer, wikipedia notes that one may use a phonetic substitution. I doubt that most people would recognise this 58 stroke original character in any case but at least this may be a usable substitute.

The Chinese character for "biáng" cannot be entered into computers. Therefore phonetic substitutes like Chinese: 彪彪面; pinyin: biāobiāo miàn) or Chinese: 冰冰面; pinyin: bīngbīng miàn) are often used.

(Wikipedia, n.d., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biángbiáng_noodles#Mnemonics)

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Now Unicode has just supported it. Click http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/, In detail, you can check this document https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-13.0/U130-30000.pdf.The Chinese Character biáng is added

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    They are on p.48. 30EDD is the Simplified Chinese version, 30EDE is the Traditional Chinese version. Mar 16, 2020 at 12:19
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Biang biang mian 的 biang can't be typed because this character doesn't exist in any IME database.

Wikipedia:

Unicode The character has not been added to Unicode yet, but is being considered by the IRG for inclusion in the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E block.[1]

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  • That's a shame. Means I would have to write it, scan it and then send it? Hmm
    – user76935
    May 26, 2014 at 15:00
  • Wikipedia uses an image in its references you can copy if you would like. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Biáng.svg
    – Mou某
    May 26, 2014 at 15:05
  • Yeah, I would need two of those to express by writing that I would like biangbiangmian. Not ideal...But thanks.
    – user76935
    May 26, 2014 at 15:14

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