User's Manual Part 1

19Getting started
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
Key
Stroke
Category
Basic
Stroke
Stroke
Name
Character
Over
⥟೼
ϗ໽
Lift
⍋㑶⠵
⢊д
Down
ЁϮϞ
䮼ϥ
Down-Hook
ᇣ∈ᠧ
ᄤᡓ
Short
Slope Down
Ⳉⳳ䋼
㤝
Long
Left Slope
ܿбЍ
亢⠛
Over Slope
佭ࣩ
ৢ϶
Short
left Slope
㗠义䴶
ᄺ↋
Dot
݁ᄺ䳋
ᖗᗻ
Right Slope
Ҏ☿জ
䗕ᵫ
Down-
Curved-
Over
ಯ㽓䜝
䝌
Down-Over
ቅᎼቃ
↡ߊ
Left Slope-
Over
Мএ݀
㑺㛑
Left Slope-
Dot
ཇ㽕ད
ᎵᎶ
Down-Lift
㸷ҹ佁
ᬊ䭓
Right Slope-
Hook
៥៪⇥
៤Ӥ
Down-Over-
Hook
ᖗᖙᗱ
ᖬ
Down-Over-
Curved-
Hook
⬉г↯
ܘᄨ
Down-Over-
Left Slope
ϧӴ䕀
Down-Over-
Down-Hook
偀Ϣᓴ
ো䌍
Down-Over-
Down
哢哤
Over-Hook
ݭᄫⲂ
䗮ܡ
Number
Key
Stroke
Category
Basic
Stroke
Stroke
Name
Character
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