Getting to know your phone 15
Input methods in detail
Stroke input
A Chinese character is built up of strokes. There are
more than 30 basic strokes, which are grouped into 8
stroke categories. Each category is represented on the
keypad by one of the keys - and . The
Wildcard key, , is used when you are not sure of
which stroke to use.
See “Example of Stroke input” on page 17.
The eight stroke categories are defined in the
table below:
Key
Stroke
Category
Basic
Stroke Character
! " # $ %
& ' ( ) *
+ , - . /
0 1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9
: ; < = >
? @ A B C
D E F G H
I G J K L
M N O P Q
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