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Getting to know your phone
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
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.
Below is the key mapping of Pinyin letters on
the keypad.
The smaller candidates surrounded by dotted frames
are components, and the bigger candidates without
dotted frames are characters.
Number Key
Pinyin Letter
a b c
d e f
g h i
j k l
m n o
p q r s
t u ü
w x y z
On the keypad, the letter ü is replaced by v.
