How to Enter Text (China)

This section explains the various methods of character entry.

Pinyin

Enter the pinyin characters, and then press [Conversion].
The Chinese characters that correspond to the entered pinyin will appear on the screen. Select the character you require. If the character you require does not appear, scroll the screen upward or downward by pressing [Previous] or [Next] respectively.
If you do not know the reading of a character but you know its character code, you can enter the character by keying in its code.

Character Code

Press [Text Code], and then key in the code of the character that you want to enter. To find a character code, see List of Characters for Entry.
Example: to enter "a", press [1] [6] [0] [1].

Alphanumeric Characters

To display alphanumeric characters, press [Alphabet].
If you press [Shift Lock], entered characters are switched between lower and upper case.

Symbols

To enter a symbol, press [Symbol Entry]. [Symbol Entry] is displayed, and the headings shown below appear under it. Pressing these headings switches the screen accordingly.

  • Punctuation

  • Characters

  • Others

For details about the symbols included under these headings, see List of Characters for Entry (China).

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