Chinese Input - Sony Ericsson K858c User Manual

4 Use or to view suggestions.
5 Press to accept a suggestion.
To enter text using multitap
1 From standby select, for example,
Menu > Messaging
message.
2 If is displayed, press and hold down
to change to multitap text input.
3 Press –
desired letter appears.
4 When a word is written, press
add a space.
Multitap input only applies when Latin
characters are selected as writing
language.
To add words to the built-in dictionary
1 When you enter text using T9 Text
Input, select Options
2 Write the word using multitap input
and select Insert.

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.
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> Write new > Text
repeatedly until the
to
> Spell word.
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
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
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.
until the character
. To select a