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Cangjie is the first Chinese input method to use the QWERTY keyboard. Chu saw that the QWERTY keyboard had become an international standard, and therefore believed that Chinese-language input had to be based on it. [3] Other, earlier methods use large keyboards with 40 to 2400 keys, except the Four-Corner Method, which uses only number keys.
Chinese characters were decomposed into "radicals", each of which was represented by a key. [1] [4] [5] Unwieldy and difficult to use, these keyboards became obsolete after the introduction of Cangjie input method, the first method to use only the standard keyboard and make Chinese touch typing possible. [5]
Simplified Cangjie, known as Quick (Chinese: 速成或簡易) is a stroke based [1] keyboard input method based on the Cangjie IME (Chinese: 倉頡輸入法) but simplified with select lists. Unlike full Cangjie, the user enters only the first and last keystrokes used in the Cangjie system, and then chooses the desired character from a list of ...
Like Cangjie, every radical has some auxiliary shapes; but some of the auxiliary shapes of one radical originate from the mnemonic word of the radical. For example, key 6 is mapped to 車(car) in the keyboard, its mnemonic word is "6片車門"(six pieces of car door), and its auxiliary shapes include "片"(piece), "爿"(old character for "wall", its shape is the reflection of "片"), "甫"(its ...
A Chinese character can alternatively be input by form-based encoding. Most Chinese characters can be divided into a sequence of components each of which is in turn composed of a sequence of strokes in writing order. There are a few hundred basic components, [5] much less than the number of characters. By representing each component with an ...
In this method, Chinese characters are arranged alphabetically by their codes used in Cangjie input method. The Cangjie code of a character is a string of English letters each representing a selected Cangjie component in the character.
Cangjie [tsʰáŋ.tɕjě] (Chinese: 倉頡) is a legendary ancient Chinese figure said to have been an official historian of the Yellow Emperor and the inventor of Chinese characters. [1] Legend has it that he had four eyes, and that when he invented the characters, the deities and ghosts cried and the sky rained millet .
The term input method generally refers to a particular way to use the keyboard to input a particular language, for example the Cangjie method, the pinyin method, or the use of dead keys. On the other hand, the term input method editor on Microsoft products refers to the program that allows an input method to be used (for example MS New Pinyin ...