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 the keys 
- 
. The Wild Card 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 | Stroke | Character | |
Key | Category | Stroke | Name |
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| Over | 王 十 在 | |
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| 七 | 天 |
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| Lift | 海 次 找 | |
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| 牡 刁 | |
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| Down | 中 上 業 | |
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| 門 且 | |
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| Down- | 小 水 打 | |
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| Hook | 子 承 | |
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| Short | 直 真 盾 | |
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| Slope | 草 |
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| Down |
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| Long | 八 旭 丹 | |
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| Left | 風 所 | |
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| Slope |
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| Over | 香 毛 丘 | |
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| Slope | 匕 妥 | |
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| Short | 而 頁 面 | |
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| left | 貿 殷 | |
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| Slope |
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