Switching between Chinese input methods In the Chinese editing mode, you can switch to
another input language by pressing 
and then selecting input language. Scroll to the input language you want and press YES.
General instructions for entering Chinese characters
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 display. These characters are displayed in order of frequency. The most frequently used character always appears in the middle of the candidate row and is highlighted automatically by the cursor. The next most frequently used characters appear at either side, in the pattern 42135. If the character that is highlighted is the one
that you want, press YES to enter it, or use 
or 
to go to the character that you want.
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If the character that you want is not displayed in
the candidate row, press 
and a new candidate
row is displayed. Press 
again until the character you want is displayed, or enter the next stroke or letter and a new set of characters will be displayed in the candidate row. To go back to a row that was pre-
viously displayed, press 
or 
. In this way, you can quickly and easily enter Chinese characters and reduce the number of key presses that you need to make.
Input methods in detail
Stroke input
A Chinese character is built up of strokes. There are more than 30 basic strokes, which are grouped into
8 stroke categories. Each category is represented on
the keyboard by one of the keys 
– 
and
. Key 
has a special function. You can
press 
to display more characters. The Wildcard
key, 
, is used when you are not sure of which stroke to use. See “Example of stroke input:” on page 15.
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