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Entering characters
General instructions
Regardless of which input method you
choose, your phone can speed up the
input of Chinese characters.
Whenever you enter a stroke or a
Pinyin letter, a candidate row of the
most frequently used characters
containing that stroke or relating to
that letter appear at the bottom of the
screen.
If the character you want is not displayed
in the candidate row, press
to view
another candidate row. Continue
pressing
until the character you want
is displayed. Alternatively, you can enter
the next stroke or Pinyin letter and a new
set of characters is displayed in the
candidate row. To go back to the
previous row, press
. To select a
character in the candidate row, press
.
Stroke input
A Chinese character is built up of
strokes. There are more than 30 basic
strokes, which are grouped into five
stroke categories. Each category is
represented on the keypad by one of
the keys
-
. The wild card key
, is used when you are not sure
which stroke to use.
Stroke categories
The five stroke categories are defined
in the table below:
Number
Key
Stroke
Category
Basic
Stroke Stroke Name
Character
Over
王
十
在
七
天
Lift
海
红
牡
状
习
Down
中
业
上
门
丑
Down-Hook
小
水
打
子
承
Short
Slope Down
直
真
质
草
Long
Left Slope
八
九
丹
风
片
Over Slope
香
千
匕
后
丢
Short
left Slope
而
页
面
学
殷
Dot
六
学
雷
心
性
Right Slope
人
火
又
送
林
Down-
Curved-Over
四
西
酉
酸
Down-Over
山
巨
屯
母
凶
Left Slope-
Over
么
去
公
约
能
Left Slope-
Dot
女
要
好
巡
巢