Pinyin input – Tannoy T303C User Manual

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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

.

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.
Below is the key mapping of Pinyin letters on the keypad.

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

Number Key

Pinyin Letter

a b c

d e f

g h i

j k l

m n o

p q r s

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