Stroke Input - Sony Ericsson T700 User Manual

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
to present another candidate row.
Continue pressing
you want is displayed. Alternatively,
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
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
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until the character
. To select
the keys
key , is used when you are not sure
of which stroke to use.
Stroke categories
The 5 stroke categories are defined in
the table below:
Number Stroke Basic
Key Category Stroke
– . The Wild Card
Stroke Character
Name
王 十 在 七 天
Over
海 次 找 牡 刁
Lift
中 上 業 門 且
Down
小 水 打 子 承
Down-
Hook
直 真 盾 草
Short
Slope
Down
八 旭 丹 風 所
Long Left
Slope
香 毛 丘 匕 妥
Over
Slope
而 頁 面 貿 殷
Short left
Slope
六 州 心 性 電
Dot
人 火 又 之 木
Right
Slope
西 四 酉 酷 酒
Down-
Curved-
Over
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