Sprint Nextel J120 - Manual (Page 21)

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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 Select .
3 Move the cursor to “ 息 ”, press Select 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 ca ndidates surrounded by dotted
frames are components, and the bigger candidates
without dotted f
rames are characters .