Chinese pinyin mode – Samsung SGH-A308 User Manual

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Scroll Keys

and

move the cursor left or right through your text

message.

and

scroll through choices in the

Character Selection Map and scrolls through text modes
available when you access the Mode change menu.

Keystroke Area
Displays the keystrokes you have entered to compose the
current character selections.

Mode Indicator
Displays the current text input mode.

Clear Key
Deletes keystrokes from the Keystroke Area and/or
characters from the Text Area.

Right Soft Key
Performs the function indicated by the text above this key.
(According to this example, this key is the Mode soft key.)

Space Key
Inserts a space in the Text Area.

Text Area

Displays the selected

characters.

Character Selection Map

Displays possible characters

based on keystrokes you

have entered.

Left Soft Key

Performs the function

indicated by the text above

this key. (According to this

example, this key is the OK

soft key.)

Pinyin Keys (

)

Press keys corresponding to

the phonetic spelling,

referring to the Roman

characters printed on the

keys. The Pinyin spelling

generates Chinese

characters in the Character

Selection Map.

Chinese Pinyin Mode

Pinyin is a system to mark Chinese pronunciation in
Latin alphabets. With the pinyin input method, you can
enter Chinese characters by keying in the pinyin string
from the phone keypad and the phone automatically
presents the matching alternatives.

This mode allows you to enter Pinyin characters with only
one key press per letter. When the phone is in the Pinyin
mode, keys behave as follow.

O K

P Y M o d e

Activates the Character

Selection Map by numbering

the characters or deactivates.

E n t e r N a m e