Sony Ericsson K608i Manual page 18

Getting to know your phone
you can enter the next stroke or Pinyin letter,
and a new set of characters will immediately be
displayed in the candidate row. To go back to the
previous row, press
the candidate row, press the navigation key or
press and hold the key corresponding to the number
above the character you want to enter.
Stroke input
A Chinese character is built up of strokes. There
are more than 30 basic strokes, which are grouped
into 5 stroke categories. Each category is
represented on the keypad by one of the keys
-
when you are not sure of which stroke to use.
Stroke categories
The 5 stroke categories are defined in the
table below:
Number
Key
18
P P reflighted by Preflighted by reflighted by
. To select a character in
. The Wild Card key
Stroke Basic Stroke
Category Stroke Name
Over
Lift
( ( ( ) ) )
Number
Key
, is used
Character
王 十 在
七 天
海 红 牡
状 习
Stroke Basic Stroke
Category Stroke Name
Down
Down-Hook 小 水 打
Short
Slope Down
Long
Left Slope
Over Slope 香 千 匕
Short
left Slope
Dot
Right Slope 人 火 又
Down-
Curved-Over
Down-Over 山 巨 屯
Left Slope-
Over
Left Slope-
Dot
Character
中 业 上
门 丑
子 承
直 真 质
草
八 九 丹
风 片
后 丢
而 页 面
学 殷
六 学 雷
心 性
送 林
四 西 酉
酸
母 凶
么 去 公
约 能
女 要 好
巡 巢