Sony Ericsson K530C User Manual

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Getting started

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.

Pinyin input

Press the keys containing the required 
Pinyin letters, and the phone will make 
various proposals on the screen, 
according to the pronunciation rules 
of Mandarin.

Over-Down-
Over-Hook

乃 透 鼐 
隽 杨

Over-Down-
Over-Down

凸

Curved-
Hook

狗 豹 家 
逐 狂

Over-Down-
Curved-
Hook

乙 九 瓦 
飞 风

Over-Down-
Over

投 沿 船 
凹

Over-Down-
Lift

话 计 认 
讯

? (Wild card key)

The smaller candidates surrounded by 
dotted frames are components, and the 
bigger candidates without dotted frames 
are characters.