Phrase input
You may input a phrase of no more than seven Chinese
characters at a time.
1 Press the relevant number keys to enter the syllable or
pinyin initial, or first strokes for the first character of the
phrase.
2 Press
0
to enter a separator; or, if in the pinyin mode,
press
1
repeatedly to enter the tone mark of the
character.
3 Enter the syllable or pinyin initial, or first strokes of the
next Chinese character.
4 Repeat step 2 and 3, if necessary, to enter the syllables
or pinyin initials, or first strokes of all the characters in
the phrase.
5 If in the pinyin mode, press
*
repeatedly, if necessary, to
highlight the pinyin combination you want.
6 Scroll through the candidate list to the desired phrase,
and select
OK
.
Not all phrases are stored in your phone. To create a phrase
of no more than seven characters, when no input symbol or
prediction list is displayed, select
Options
>
User
phrases
>
Add
. When the database becomes full, the new
phrase replaces the phrase that has not been accessed for the
longest time.
Use a separator to separate pinyin strings for syllables of
different characters or the strokes of different characters.
When you enter a separator, the phone predicts characters
or character strings that can form a phrase with the possible
candidates of the combination of pinyin or stroke strings and
separators, if any, that you have entered.
Set predictive English on or off
When writing text in English, to switch predictive text input
on or off, press and hold
#
, and select
Prediction on
or
Prediction off
.
Traditional text input
Press a number key, 2-9, repeatedly until the desired
character appears. The available characters depend on the
selected writing language.
If the next letter you want is located on the same key as the
present one, wait until the cursor appears, and enter the
letter.
To access the most common punctuation marks and special
characters, press
1
repeatedly. To access the list of special
characters, press
*
. To insert a space, press
0
.
Predictive text input
Predictive text input is based on a built-in dictionary to which
you can also add new words.
1 Start writing a word, using the keys
2
to
9
. Press each key
only once for one letter.
2 To confirm a word, scroll right or add a space.
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