Chinese Input; Stroke Input; General Instructions - Sony Ericsson S700c User Manual

Getting to know your phone

Chinese input

This mobile phone has different input methods for
entering Chinese characters:

• Stroke input

• Pinyin input
You can use these methods, for example, to enter
Chinese names and Chinese short messages.
Switching between Chinese input
methods
In the Chinese editing mode, you can select and
switch quickly to another input method by pressing
and holding .

General instructions

Regardless of which input method you choose, your
phone has a function to speed up the entry 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 appears at the bottom of the screen.
If the character you want is not displayed in the
candidate row, press
row. Continue pressing
want is displayed. Alternatively, you can enter the
next stroke or Pinyin letter and a new set of
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to present another candidate
until the character you
characters will immediately be displayed in the
candidate row. To go back to the previous row,
press . To select a character in 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
- . The Wild Card key
when you are not sure of which stroke to use
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19 Example of using the wild card key.
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