How do people write Chinese on a computer keyboard?

They pray really hard and Jesus takes the wheel

Let's see. When you set up your computer it ask you what country.... So I am guessing if you go to settings or something you could change your settings.

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How to Type Chinese on a Computer
Go to System Preferences.
Choose Keyboard.
Choose Input Sources.
Click +
Select Chinese (Simplified) – Pinyin – Simplified then click Add.
Make sure 'Show Input menu in menu bar' is checked.
Use the language icon in the menubar at the top to switch modes.

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See.. Its not that hard if you really think about it.

Chinese characters are made up of "radicals." These are subparts that make up the thousands of characters, and the radicals aren't all that numerous. The Chinese keyboard lets you input the radicals in the character you want, and it figures out the entire character.

The radicals are generally just 3 or 4 brush strokes. There's a sun radical, a moon, a little roof, a man, a woman, etc.

If you look deep into antiquity, there is a certain logic to how each character breaks into radicals, but it's pretty obscure. "Happiness" is an easy example- man radical and woman radical under roof radical.

Exactly - I’m not talking about pinyin that would be just like typing Spanish or any other language. I’m not even talking Russian or Arabic - these have alphabets. I’m talking about Chinese pictographs.

Chopsticks

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"Happiness" is an easy example- man radical and woman radical under roof radical.

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Unless they are horizontal, they have a weird concept of happiness

It's just a different font.

Probably something like this if I had to guess.

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How do people write Chinese on a computer keyboard?

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You type the letter C-H-I-N-E-S-E on a keyboard.

Typing it in Cantonese or Mandarin might be a little more difficult.