AN APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR CHINESE CHARACTER SELECTION AND OUTPUT

摘要

An apparatus, method and computerreadable medium are disclosed. In at leastone embodiment, the apparatus includes a keyboardincluding keys, a plurality of the keys eachbeing associated with a polysemous symbol relatingto a concept represented by a Chinese radical;and a processor, to determine whether or nota plurality of symbols, associated with a pluralityof selected keys, form a sequence of symbols associatedwith at least one Chinese character, and,in response to determining that the plurality ofselected symbols form a sequence of symbols associatedwith at least one Chinese character, toinstruct output of the at least one Chinese character.A plurality of the keys may include each ofa polysemous symbol, a Chinese radical, a Chinesemeasure word character and a Pinyin/Bopomofoletter, each associated with one another.