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 
until the character 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
Stroke categories
previous row, press 
. To select a 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.
Stroke input
A Chinese character is built up of strokes. There are more than 30 basic strokes, which are grouped into five 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.
The five stroke categories are defined in the table below:
Number key | Stroke category | Basic stroke | Stroke name | Character |
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| Over | 王 十 在 七 天 |
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| Lift | 海 红 牡 状 习 |
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| Down | 中 业 上 门 丑 |
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| 小 水 打 子 承 | |
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| Short Slope Down | 直 真 质 草 |
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| Long Left Slope | 八 九 丹 风 片 |
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20 Getting started
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