A poll commissioned by the China Youth Daily in April 2010 found that 83 percent of the 2,072 respondents admitted having problems writing characters, forgetting how to write traditional Chinese characters – literally, “take pen, forget character” or character amnesia。

《中國青年報》在2010年4月進(jìn)行的一項調(diào)查顯示，在2072位被調(diào)查者中，有83%的人承認(rèn)寫字的時候會遇到“提筆忘字”的情況。

Chinese boffins say that character amnesia happens because most Chinese people use electronic input systems based on Pinyin, which translates Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet。

中國的學(xué)者指出，“提筆忘字”的情況會發(fā)生是因為大部分中國人使用的電子設(shè)備輸入法都是拼音輸入法，所有漢字都通過字母來輸入。

The user enters each word using Pinyin, and the device offers a menu of characters. So users must recognise the character, however they don’t need to write it any more。

用戶輸入拼音后，電子設(shè)備就會提供一系列與之匹配的漢字供選。所以用戶只須識別這些漢字，而根本不需要把它們寫出來。