Sony Ericsson Z558 User Guide - Page 18

General instructions Regardless of which input method you choose, your phone can speed up the input 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 appear at the bottom of the screen. If the character you want is not displayed in the candidate row, press to view 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 is displayed in the candidate row. To go back to the previous row, press . To select a character in the candidate row, press . 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 which stroke to use. Stroke categories The five stroke categories are defined in the table below: Number Stroke Key Category Basic Stroke Stroke Name Character Over Lift Down Down-Hook Short Slope Down Long Left Slope Over Slope Short left Slope Dot Right Slope DownCurved-Over 四 酸 西 酉 Down-Over Left SlopeOver Left SlopeDot 16 Entering characters This is the Internet version of the user's guide. © Print only for private use.