Use predictive text
To speed up your writing, your phone can guess what you are starting to write. Predictive text is based
on a built-in dictionary. This feature is not available for all languages.
1. Select Options > Dictionary and the language.
2. Start writing a word. When the word you want is shown, press 0.
Change a word
Press * repeatedly until the word you want is shown.
Add a new word to the dictionary
If the word you want isn't in the dictionary, write the word, press * repeatedly to skip all unwanted
words, select Spell, and write the word.
Switch between predictive and traditional text
Press # repeatedly.
Switch predictive text off
Select Options > Dictionary > Dictionary off.
Use the pinyin method
Learn how to use the pinyin symbols to write Chinese characters with the keypad.
Pinyin symbols are mapped to the number keys. Select each key once, regardless of the position of the
symbol on the number key. The phone makes logical combinations of the pinyin symbols.
Make sure the phone language is Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese.
1. For each pinyin symbol you want to type in, press the number key once. Use v for ü.
2. To type in the tone mark, press 1 repeatedly.
3. To highlight the pinyin combination you want, if necessary, press * repeatedly.
4. Select the character you want.
Use the stroke method
Want to write Chinese characters in the standard stroke order? Use the stroke method.
The strokes constituting Chinese characters are divided into five categories: horizontal, vertical,
leftfalling, dot, and turning. Each category corresponds to a number key from 1 to 5, respectively.
Make sure the phone language is Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese.
1. To type in the strokes, press the relevant keys in the standard stroke order.
2. Press 6 to substitute the stroke, if necessary. A question mark in the input area represents that
stroke.
3. Select the character you want.
