McBopomofo

• Please note: The input method only works for ChromeOS, but you can use the text conversion features on Chrome for Window/macOS/Linux.

McBopomofo (小麥注音) is a smart phonetic (zhuyin/注音) Chinese Input Method Editor that offers another choice for inputting Chinese.

It has following features

• Comparing to the built-in Zhuyin IME, McBopomofo's behavior to handle punctuation is much more like other platforms that users are familiar to. For example, the built-in Zhuyin IME does not allow users to input punctuation like exclamation mark when there is already text in the composing buffer ,while McBopomofo does.
• Various keyboard layouts: Standard, ETen, Hsu, ETen26, Hanyu Pinyin and IBM.
• Various settings: including the position of the candidates, if Shift+Letter keys should input uppercase or lowercase letters and so on.Just visit the options page.
• Chinese conversion: You can use Alt+Shift+G to toggle if you want to input Simplified Chinese. You can also change the shortcut key in the extensions shortcut setting (chrome://extensions/shortcuts).
• Custom user phrases: Use Shift and left/right arrow keys to select a range and then press enter key to add a new phrase.You can also edit/delete/copy/paste the phrases in the options page.
• Emoji: Some Bopomofo syllables are associates with Emojis. For example, you can get 🔥 when typing ㄏㄨㄛˇ.
• Date macros: Just type "今天", "今年" to input dates quickly..
• Dictionary lookup: Press on the question mark key when choosing a candidate, it opens a list of online dictionaries.
• Quick Chinese numbers input: Press Control and Backslash (Ctrl + ) to enter the number input mode, for example, 1234567 becomes 一百二十三萬四千五百六十七.