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 literally1, take pen, forget character or character amnesia2.
《中國年輕人報》在2010年4月進行的一項調查顯示，在2072位被調查者中，有83％的人承認寫字的時候會遇見提筆忘字的狀況。
Chinese boffins say that character amnesia happens because most Chinese people use electronic input3 systems based on Pinyin, which translates Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet.
中國的學者指出，提筆忘字的狀況會發生是由于大多數中國人用的電子設施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 dont need to write it any more.
用戶輸入拼音后，電子設施就會提供一系列與之匹配的漢字供選。所以用戶只須辨別這類漢字，而根本無需把它們寫出來。