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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
,
and
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.
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