Sony Ericsson K300c, Owner'S Manual

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Components
The basic building units of Chinese characters are
components that are made up of strokes. After entering the
first two strokes of the desired character, the component and
character candidates that started with that stroke are
displayed in the candidate row.
Using components is a fast method for entering complex
characters.
For example, to enter “ 信息 ”
1 Enter “ ”, “ ” and “ ”.
2 Move the cursor to “
信
”, press .
3 Move the cursor to “
息
”, press again to select “
息
”.
Example of using the wild card key
The wild card key , is used to supplement unclear strokes
in entering characters. If you want to enter “ 互 ”, but you only
know that “ 一 ” is the first and the last stroke of the character
and that the total number of strokes is four, enter , ,
, . The character is displayed in the candidate row.
Pinyin input
Press the keys containing the required Pinyin letters, and the
phone will make various proposals on the screen, according
to the pronunciation rules of Mandarin.
The smaller candidates surrounded by dotted frames
are components, and the bigger candidates without
dotted frames are characters.