Computer Keyboard 计算机键盘 ji4suan4ji1 jian4pan2

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	Chelsea	Chrystal

backspace 

退 格

tui4ge2

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

curly bracket, curley brackets 

花 括 号

hua1kuo4hao4

square bracket, square brackets (braces - old term) 

大 括 号

da4kuo4hao4

square bracket, square brackets 

大 括 弧

da4kuo4hu2

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
April	Jeremy	Kate	Scott

colon 

冒 号

mao4hao4

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

comma 

逗 号

dou4hao4

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

F key, function key 

功 能 键

gong1neng2jian4

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

control key 

控 制 键

kong4zhi4 jian4

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

control-X (indicates control key combination) 

操 控 - X

cao1kong4-X

Chelsea

control-X (indicates control key combination) 

操 纵 - X

cao1kong4-X

Chelsea

dash 

破 折 号

po4zhe2hao4

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

enter, carriage return (computer) 

回 车

hui2che1

Du Feng	Jin Yan	Sun Bin	An Yufei	Shao Jingxian
Ann	Scrib	Maggy	Frank

to press enter 

按 回 车

an4 hui2che1

Du Feng	Jin Yan	Sun Bin	An Yufei	Shao Jingxian
Ann	Scrib	Maggy	Frank

equals sign 

等 号

deng3hao4

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

exclamation point 

叹 号

tan4 hao4

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Mal	Chelsea	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	David

hyphen 

连 字 符

lian2zi4fu2

Sun Bin	Zheng Jie	Sun Xiaomei
Sarah

hyphen 

连 字 号

lian2zi4hao4

Du Feng	Deng Yichen	Wang Chen	Zhou Hui	Ren Shuang
David	Chris

Chinese speech input 

汉 语 语 音 输 入

Han4yu3 yu3yin1 shu1ru4

Wang Jin	Huang Jiali	Cao Hui	Shu Chang
April	Jeremy	Kate	Scott

Chinese character input 

汉 字 输 入

Han4zi4 shu1ru4

Wang Jin	Huang Jiali	Cao Hui	Shu Chang
April	Jeremy	Kate	Scott

insert 

插 入

cha1ru4

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

keyboard shortcut 

快 捷 键

kuai4jie2jian4

Du Feng	Cao Lihong	Ren Shuang	Wang Chen	Zhou Hui
Eric	Maggy	Lennie

number lock 

数 字 锁 定 键

shu4zi4 suo3ding4 jian4

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

number pad 

数 字 盘

shu4zi4pan2

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

Chinese character output 

汉 字 输 出

Han4zi4 shu1chu1

Wang Jin	Huang Jiali	Cao Hui	Shu Chang
April	Jeremy	Kate	Scott

page up 

上 页

shang4 ye4

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

page down 

下 页

xia4 ye4

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

brackets  (square)

括 号

kuo4hao4

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

parentheses 

括 弧

kuo4hu2

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

period 

句 号

ju4hao4

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

plus sign 

加 号

jia1hao4

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

pointer, dot, decimal point  (computer usage -- mouse pointer, to point)

点

dian3

Shao Danni	Zhang Meng	Song Jia	Zheng Lei
Karen	Fred	Sarah	Kate

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

打

da3

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

to press  (computer - press a key)

压

ya1

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

question mark 

问 号

wen4hao4

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

semi-colon 

分 号

fen1hao4

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

slash 

斜 杠 字 符

xie2gang4zi4fu2

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

backslash 

反 斜 杠 字 符

fan3xie2gang4zi4fu2

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

space bar  (computer usage)

空 格 键

kong4ge2jian4

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

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

underline, underscore 

底 线

di3xian4

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