Entering Text
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Clearing Strokes and Characters
Press the C key or more times to remove strokes to
the left. Once the Pinyin Area is empty, pressing the
C key removes characters from the Text Area.
Using Chinese Stroke Modes
These modes allow you to enter individual Chinese
strokes, in written order; from top to bottom, and
from left to right. Your phone provides Chinese
Simplified Stroke mode and Chinese Simplified
Stroke mode.
The two modes work similarly, but the characters
that appear on the display.
Even though there are many different strokes used
to create Chinese characters, the strokes are
classified into 5 basic categories; heng, shu, pie,
dian and zhe. The basic strokes are printed on the
keypad, on the 1 to 5 keys.
To enter a stroke, press the key printed with the
printed with the stroke that most closely represents
the exact stroke you want.
The table shows the stroke/key relationship:
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Typing Strokes and Characters in Stroke
Mode
1. To type a character, press keys corresponding to
its component strokes. Press keys on the
handset in the order that you would write the
strokes, using one press per each stroke.
Example: Typing “ ” in Chines Traditional
Stroke mode
2. The phone displays your strokes in the Key
Stroke Area and offers character choices in the
Character Selection Map. As you enter strokes,
notice that the choices in the Character
Selection Map change.
To scroll through choices in the Character
Selection Map, press the Up or Down key.
Note
: If you are uncertain of the order of one or
more strokes, press the
6
key in place of
each questionable stroke. Continue entering
strokes until the character is displayed in
the Character Selection Map or until you
have finished the character.
3. When the character you are typing appears in
the Character Selection Map, you may select it
without finishing the stroke sequence for the
character. Characters displayed in the Character
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Press the 5 key to enter
“ ,”and then the 3 key
to enter
“.”
