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Components
The basic building units of Chinese characters are
components that are made up of strokes. After entering the
first two strokes of the desired character, the component
and character candidates that started with that stroke are
displayed in the candidate row.
Using components is a fast method for entering complex
characters.
For example, to enter "
信息
"
1 Enter " ", " " and " ".
2 Move the cursor to " 信 ", press .
3 Move the cursor to " 息 ", press again to select " 息 ".
Example of using the wild card key
The wild card key , is used to supplement unclear
strokes in entering characters. If you want to enter "互", but
you only know that "一" is the first and the last stroke of the
character and that the total number of strokes is four, enter
, , , . The character is displayed in the
candidate row.
The smaller candidates surrounded by dotted
frames are components, and the bigger candidates
without dotted f
rames are characters.