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10 Chapter 1

Writing-Based Input Systems

pliﬁed Chinese uses over 6, 000 characters, while Traditional Chin ese uses over 16,000

characters. These characters are used individually as words. In addition, two or three

characters can be co

bined to fo r

phrase,

which represents a word.

Chinese characters have three levels:

str okes

used to draw th e ch aracters; co

binations of

strokes which for

ple graphic ele

ents, called

radicals,

that

ake up the characters;

and the whole character.

Note:

The wo rd

radical

is also used to designate the root of a character.

riting-based input

odes are either stroke-based or radical-based:

m A stroke-based inpu t syste

deﬁn es the basic strokes used to write Chinese characters

and ass igns the strokes to keys on the

an-based keyboard.

m A radical-based input syste

deﬁn es the radicals used to write Chinese characters and

assigns the radicals to keys on the

an-based keyboard.

To e nter a character, you type the keys for the strokes or radicals in the ord er speciﬁed by th e

input

ode to co

pose the characters. This o rde r is based on the way Chinese characters

are written. To use a stroke or radical input syste

, you

ust know ho w to write Chinese, as

well as understand how the input

ode works.

troke and radical input

odes are popular with Chinese speakers because they are based on

writing the characters. They allow y ou to enter Chinese characters rapidly and without

converting the

to a foreign writing syste

, as the Pinyin input

ode does.

Becaus e t hese input

odes deﬁ ne a li

ited nu

ber of strokes or radicals, th ey do not

includ e all the ele

ents used in Chinese characters. In addition, it

ay not be clear which

stroke or radical to use for a character in so

e cases.

These inpu t

odes li

it the nu

ber of strokes or radicals you can use to designate a

character. The li

it can be less than the nu

ber of ele

ents actually use d to write the

character. For exa

ple, the

ubi

ua input

ode, which is a stroke input syste

, allows up

to ﬁve st rokes for a character, bu t

any Chinese characters requir e

ore than ﬁve strokes.

Becaus e of these li

itations, yo u

ay have to select the character yo u want fro

seve ral

alternatives after you type the keys for the st rokes or radicals that

ake up the character.

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