Getting to know your phone 17
The Wildcard key, , is used to supplement
unclear strokes in entering characters. For example, if
you want to enter “°”, but you only know that “±” is
the first and the last stroke of the character and that the
total number of strokes is four:
•Enter
1881
.
The character is displayed in the candidate row.
Example of Stroke input
Your phone has an association function which is
designed to associate a stroke with a component, a
component with a character, or a character with words
or phrases.
To enter words
In this example, we are going to enter “ ²³ ”.
1. Enter the first stroke “ ´ ”.
Six components and characters starting with “ ´ ”
appear in the candidate row, see also “General
instructions for entering Chinese characters” on
page 14. Press
YES
.
2. Move the cursor to “ µ ”. Press
YES
.
3. Enter another stroke, “ ¶ ”.
“ ² ” is displayed.
4. Move the cursor to highlight the character you want,
press
YES
.
The character is moved up to the text row. The other
character “ ³ ” is displayed in the candidate row.
5. Repeat step 4.
Sequence rules
You must enter a Chinese character stroke by stroke,
in the right order. The rules for the sequence of strokes
and components are:
• Over first then down:
• Left slope first then right slope:
• From top to bottom:
• From left to right:
• From outside to inside:
• Middle first then sides:
• Inside first and then close:
Pinyin input
Pinyin is a phonetic-based Chinese input method.
You enter the character by entering the Latin letters
corresponding to the pronunciation of the
Chinese character.
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