Pinyin Input - Sony Ericsson T618 User Manual

Components
The basic building units of Chinese characters are
components that are made of strokes. After entering
the first two strokes of the desired character, the
component and character candidates that started with
that stroke are displayed in the candidate row.
Using components is a fast method for entering
complex characters.
Note: The smaller candidates surrounded by dotted
frames are components, and the bigger candidates
without dotted frames are characters.
Example of Stroke input
For example, to enter "
1. Enter " ", " " and " ".
2. Move the cursor to " 信 ", press the joystick.
3. Press the joystick again to select " 息 ".
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信息 "
Example of using the Wild card key
The Wild card key
unclear strokes in entering characters. If you want to
enter " 互 ", but you only know that " 一 " is the first
and the last stroke of the character and that the total
number of strokes is four:
• Enter , ,
The character is displayed in the candidate row.

Pinyin input

Press the keys containing the required Pinyin letters,
and the phone will make various proposals on the
display, according to the pronunciation rules
of Mandarin.
Below is the key mapping of Pinyin letters on
the keypad:
Number Key Pinyin Letter
a b c
d e f
g h i
j k l
m n o
p q r s
, is used to supplement
, .