Chinese input, Switching between chinese input methods, General instructions – Sprint Nextel J120 User Manual

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Chinese input

This mobile phone has different input methods for entering
Chinese characters:

Stroke input

Pinyin input

You can use these methods, for example, to enter
Chinese names and Chinese short messages.

Switching between Chinese input methods

In the Chinese editing mode, you can select and switch
quickly to another input method by pressing

repeatedly.

General instructions

Regardless of which input method you choose, your
phone has a function to speed up the entry of Chinese
characters. Whenever you enter a stroke or a Pinyin letter,
a candidate row of the most frequently used characters
containing that stroke or relating to that letter appears at
the bottom of the screen.
If the character you want is not displayed in the candidate

row, press

to present another candidate row.

Continue pressing

until the character you want is

displayed. Alternatively, you can enter the next stroke or
Pinyin letter and a new set of characters will immediately
be displayed in the candidate row. To go back to the

previous row, press

.

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