Chinese Phonetic Alphabet and Phonetic Notation Input Method for Entering Multiword by Using Numerals of Keypad

Abstract

The present invention provides a numeric coded Pinyin and Zhuyin multi-character input method on a reduced keypad, in which each Chinese phrase is mapped to corresponding numeric sequences based on full syllable or initial consonant of a syllable inputting rule and the keypad mapping relation, accordingly, phrases of different phonetic pronunciation may be mapped to a same numeric sequence; in the case of consecutively receiving a numeric keystroke sequence which represents of several desired Chinese characters but pronunciation still undetermined, a processor immediately searches the phrases' numeric sequences which are matched with keystroke sequence and present these mixed phrase candidates to user even though these candidates may have different pronunciation; further, an initial syllable grouping and cycling rule is specially defined, along with a key for switching between character candidate priority and phrase candidate priority, additionally, define an equal-length candidate filtering code keystroke, and a key for determining syllable by character and the like to accelerate the choice of candidate phrases and facilitate the realization of PC-like Chinese phrase consecutive inputting on the reduced keypad.

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