Number

Stroke

Basic

Stroke

Character

 

Components

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Key

Category

Stroke

Name

 

 

The basic building units of Chinese

 

 

 

 

 

 

characters are components that are

 

 

 

Over-Down

口 已 户

 

 

 

 

 

made up of strokes. After entering

 

 

 

 

书 骨

 

 

 

 

Over-Down-

力 习 也

 

the first two strokes of the desired

 

 

 

Hook

同 永

 

character, the component and character

 

 

 

Over-

又 之 登

 

candidates that started with that stroke

 

 

 

Left Slope

多 社

 

are displayed in the candidate row.

 

 

 

Over-Down-

及 极 廷

 

Using components is a fast method

 

 

 

Over-

 

for entering complex characters.

 

 

 

Left Slope

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Over-

阿 队 陈

 

The smaller candidates surrounded by

 

 

 

Left Slope-

那 部

 

 

 

 

 

dotted frames are components, and the

 

 

 

Curved-

 

 

 

 

 

Hook

 

 

bigger candidates without dotted frames

 

 

 

Over-Down-

乃 透 鼐

 

are characters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Over-Hook

隽 杨

 

For example, to enter “ 信息

 

 

 

 

Over-Down-

 

 

 

 

 

1

Enter “ ”, “ ” and “

 

”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Over-Down

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 Move the cursor to “ ”, press .

 

 

 

Curved-

狗 豹 家

 

 

 

 

Move the cursor to “ ”, press

 

 

 

Hook

逐 狂

 

 

 

 

Over-Down-

乙 九 瓦

 

again to select “ ”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Curved-

飞 风

 

Example of using the wild card key

 

 

 

Hook

 

 

 

 

 

Over-Down-

投 沿 船

 

The wild card key

 

 

, is used to

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Over

 

supplement unclear strokes in entering

 

 

 

Over-Down-

话 计 认

 

characters. If you want to enter “ ”,

 

 

 

Lift

 

but you only know that “” is the first

 

? (Wild card key)

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

20Getting started

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