1. A method for suggesting query completions for a language having ideographs and phonetic characters, comprising: receiving a partial query from a search requestor, the partial query comprising one or more ideographs followed by at least one phonetic character that forms an incomplete phonetic sequence consistent with a first ideograph distinct from the one or more ideographs, and the partial query comprises a portion of a complete query; prior to the search requestor signaling completion of a query and prior to the search requester entering any text beyond the one or more ideographs followed by at least one phonetic character: in accordance with both the one or more ideographs and the at least one phonetic character, obtaining a set of predicted complete queries corresponding to the partial query from queries submitted by a community of users, the set of predicted complete queries ordered in accordance with a ranking criteria; and conveying the set of ordered predicted queries to the search requestor.