METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INPUTTING CHINESE CHARACTERS

The inputting apparatus and method is disclosed which associates at least two keys consecutively pressed with a corresponding Chinese character stroke. When a user presses keys associated with the strokes constituting a Chinese character, the inputting method of the invention will generate various strokes based on the user input and then meaningful Chinese character. Since the Chinese character inputting method according to the invention is only concerned with the direction of consecutively pressing at least two keys, it is only necessary for the user to consider the direction of depression of the keys corresponding to the strokes when inputting strokes without considering which key is to be pressed, thereby greatly reducing the memory burden of the user.