December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
33h 22m
English
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Chapter 5: Input Methods
The kanji tablet arrayFigure 5-4.
Chinese Input Method Keyboard Arrays
ere have been dozens of keyboard arrays designed for use with specic Chinese input
methods. e keys of such keyboard arrays have imprinted on them ideographs or ideo-
graph elements (such as radicals). e two keyboard arrays that are discussed in this sec-
tion are the Wubi and Cangjie arrays, which appear to be the most popular.
Wubi array
e Wubi array is designed to be used with the Wubi Method, introduced earlier in this
chapter in the section entitled “Input by stroke shapes.” A Wubi code consists of three or
four elements, but four elements is the most common. e Wubi Method species ve
basic categories of character roots, according to the rst stroke’s shape, as shown in Table
5-20. Also provided are the key cap hanzi and their location on the QWERTY keyboard
array.
Keyboard Arrays
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Wubi Method character rootsTable 5-20.
Row Cell Code Key cap QWERTY Example character roots
Horizontal
1
1 11
G
2 12
F
3 13
D
4 14
S
5 15
A
Vertical
2
1 21
H
2 22
J
3 23
K
4 24
L
5 25
M
Curve
a
3
1 31
T
2 32
R
3 33
E
4 34
W
5 35
Q
Curve
b
4
1 41
Y
2
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