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Getting to know your phone
Components
The basic building units of Chinese characters are
components that are made 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.
Example of stroke input
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 display, 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.