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Entering Text
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Entering Text
Chinese Stroke Mode
This mode allows you to enter individual Chinese
strokes, in written order - from top to bottom, and
from left to right.
Even though there are many different strokes used to
create Chinese characters, the strokes are classified
into 5 basic categories; heng, shu, pie, dian and zhe.
The basic strokes are printed on the keypad, on keys
to .
To enter a stroke, press the key printed with the
stroke that most closely represents the exact stroke
you desire. The table shows the stroke/key
relationship:
Typing Stokes and Characters in Stroke Mode
1. To type a character, press keys corresponding to its
component strokes. Press keys on the handset in the
order that you would write the strokes, using one
press per desired stroke.
Example: Typing (
) in Stroke mode
2. The phone displays your strokes in the Key Stroke
Area and offers character choices in the Character
Selection Map. As you enter strokes, notice that
the choices in the Character Selection Map
change.
To scroll through choices in the Character Selection
Map, press the navigation key.
N o t e
: If you are uncertain of the order of one or
m o re strokes, press in place of each
questionable stroke. Continue entering stro k e s
until the character is displayed in the
Character Selection Map or until you have
finished the character.
Key Stroke Area.
Press
to enter
,
then
to enter
.
