14
我
7
案
10
好
6
爸
8
要
9
外
5
象
12
集
12
武
8
香
9
Strokes input method
The basic strokes of Chinese characters:
Horizontal stroke
Vertical stroke
Dot
Left/right-falling stroke
In the input interface, press “SPACE” key (Input method) to choose Strokes. Press “SPACE” button until the
upper right of the screen shows “Stroke
筆
”. Input the number of strokes of a character simply by pressing the
corresponding number & alphabet key (a~d) to get the character you want. For example, press number 3 button
and the machine will appear all Chinese characters that have 3 strokes “a
上
b
下
c
个
d
也
e
大
f
子
g
小
h
工
“. Press“>”key to see more alternative characters when “>” is shown at the right end of the selections. Use the
alphabet key (a~d) to select, and the word will be input. Continue to input number of strokes for other Chinese
characters. Press <OK> key to finish Chinese character input and to find out the interpretation of input words.
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3
Example 4
Example 5
Example
6
Example 7
Example 8
Example 9
Example 10
ChangJie Input method
ChangJie identifies 24 Chinese alphabets and grouped them under 4 categories plus 2 special alphabet. These 26
alphabets corresponds to the 26 English alphabets on a standard QWERTY keyboard.
Category 1 - Philosophy :
日
(A)
、月
(B)
、金
(C)
、木
(D)
、水
(E)
、火
(F)
、土
(G)
Category 2 - strokes :
竹
(H
，斜
-slanting)
、戈
(I
，点
-dot)
、十
(J
，交
-upright cross)
、大
(K
，叉
-slanting cross)
、
中
(L
，纵
-vertical line)
、一
(M
，横
-horizontal line)
、弓
(N
，钩
-hook)
Category 3 - human body :
人
(O)
、心
(P)
、手
(Q)
、口
(R)
Category 4 - Shape of word :
尸
(S
，侧
-on the side)
、廿
(T
，并
-in parellel)
、山
(U
，仰
-facing up)
、女
(V
，
纽
-winding)
、田
(W
，方
-square)
、卜
(Y-fork style)
Special alphabet -
难
(X-difficult)
，
for special Chinese characters that don
’
t have alphabets in any of the
above category, for example: (HX)
、卍
(NX)
等
;
重
(Z-chong)
，
in third generation of ChangJie, this
alphabet is being used to input punctuation marks or self-defined characters.
The 24 Chinese alphabets derive other auxiliary Chinese alphabet to identify all Chinese characters. For
example,
the alphabet of
水”
derives
“氵”、“又”；
the alphabet of
“中”（纵）
derives
“丨”；
the alphabet of
“弓”（钩）
derives
“亅”。
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