# Cangjie (or other writing-based) inputs **URL:** \ **Category:** Chinese Language\ **Created:** [February 11, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.hanzihero.com/t/cangjie-or-other-writing-based-inputs/4625 "2025-02-11T18:19:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![akitak9821](https://community-cdn.hanzihero.com/user_avatar/community.hanzihero.com/akitak9821/32/787_2.png) [@akitak9821](https://community.hanzihero.com/u/akitak9821)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.hanzihero.com/t/cangjie-or-other-writing-based-inputs/4625/1 "2025-02-11T18:19:47Z")
Has anyone here used cangjie (倉頡輸入法), wubi (五笔字型输入法), sucheng (速成或簡易)? It’s pretty cool if you’re into language side quests. I’ll have to hunt for the first website where I started learning cangjie to provide to y’all (because it was really good), but basically it’s all about typing characters based on components. The components can even be radicals that are broken down further, so it definitely requires understanding and remembering how a character is written. ![image](https://community-b2-cdn.hanzihero.com/original/1X/7040c667fa40db27712108737ee46911608bf1c4.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![akitak9821](https://community-cdn.hanzihero.com/user_avatar/community.hanzihero.com/akitak9821/32/787_2.png) [@akitak9821](https://community.hanzihero.com/u/akitak9821)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://community.hanzihero.com/t/cangjie-or-other-writing-based-inputs/4625/2 "2025-02-11T18:27:11Z")
Pardon my French (ah ha ha). This page doesn’t translate to English for whatever reason, but as you can see from the first photo, the characters can be chopped up into ways that make sense for the cangjie codes. (Link to page with all of this info: [Chinois/Saisie du chinois en utilisant la méthode Cangjie — Wikilivres](https://fr.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chinois/Saisie_du_chinois_en_utilisant_la_m%C3%A9thode_Cangjie)) ![cangjie1](https://community-b2-cdn.hanzihero.com/original/1X/cd1adcabcd50f89fa66f1b6a110d62c5fb83395e.png) - **It still attempts to follow the natural writing order like in the two images below.** ![cangjie2](https://community-b2-cdn.hanzihero.com/original/1X/d2562bf9275e1fe410c2b1cb44fbdbfb470782fd.png) ![cangjie3](https://community-b2-cdn.hanzihero.com/original/1X/6cc9a0b94ed4b4f492de437d8758a3db4d1aba33.png) - **And finally, here’s a reference of what components each code is providing!** ![cangjie4](https://community-b2-cdn.hanzihero.com/original/1X/e10a5558904969220742a4d9757661bb236bb4cd.png) ---
**Author:** ![phil](https://community-cdn.hanzihero.com/user_avatar/community.hanzihero.com/phil/32/6_2.png) [@phil](https://community.hanzihero.com/u/phil)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://community.hanzihero.com/t/cangjie-or-other-writing-based-inputs/4625/3 "2025-02-11T21:03:55Z")
I recall researching about this when I was more into alternative keyboard layouts. There’s a thread on [chinese-forums.com](http://chinese-forums.com) where someone detailed their process of learning Cangjie. I don’t remember their conclusion though or if they succeeded 😅 Would be curious of the distribution of keyboard layout preferences amongst natives — I have a suspicion it’s not as popular since it’s a non-phonetic layout > [@akitak9821](#): > > have to hunt for the first website where I started learning cangjie to provide to y’all That’d be neat to check out 🙂 – how far are you going to take/have taken this sidequest out of curiosity? ---
**Author:** ![kevin](https://community-cdn.hanzihero.com/user_avatar/community.hanzihero.com/kevin/32/68_2.png) [@kevin](https://community.hanzihero.com/u/kevin)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://community.hanzihero.com/t/cangjie-or-other-writing-based-inputs/4625/4 "2025-02-11T22:56:33Z")
I think the area with the most users of this input method is Hong Kong, though I’m curious how prevalent it is nowadays. Now that jyutping input is more widely available, I see it declining further, though. Now that I think about it, I think I met one person from Hong Kong here who used this method for phone input at least, or maybe it was some other one. The story of the guy behind it is pretty interesting. One of his motivations was to allow writing even the most arbitrary (to the point of practically not previously being used) characters via the keyboard, allowing Chinese computing to be more “organic”. ---
**Author:** ![kevin](https://community-cdn.hanzihero.com/user_avatar/community.hanzihero.com/kevin/32/68_2.png) [@kevin](https://community.hanzihero.com/u/kevin)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://community.hanzihero.com/t/cangjie-or-other-writing-based-inputs/4625/5 "2025-02-11T22:58:28Z")
![image](https://community-b2-cdn.hanzihero.com/original/1X/7e36bf4b6f49571c808c251446571cd3d434781d.jpeg) Cangjie input keyboard from 007: Tomorrow Never Dies. Aesthetic. ---
**Author:** ![akitak9821](https://community-cdn.hanzihero.com/user_avatar/community.hanzihero.com/akitak9821/32/787_2.png) [@akitak9821](https://community.hanzihero.com/u/akitak9821)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://community.hanzihero.com/t/cangjie-or-other-writing-based-inputs/4625/6 "2025-02-11T23:19:35Z")
I started 3-4 years ago for funsies, and then on and off use it when I’m using characters for Cantonese! I wanna get back into it though One of the websites I used (just found it after a few hours) was [https://www.hkcards.com/cj/article-menu.html](https://www.hkcards.com/cj/article-menu.html) ---
**Author:** ![akitak9821](https://community-cdn.hanzihero.com/user_avatar/community.hanzihero.com/akitak9821/32/787_2.png) [@akitak9821](https://community.hanzihero.com/u/akitak9821)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://community.hanzihero.com/t/cangjie-or-other-writing-based-inputs/4625/7 "2025-02-11T23:22:54Z")
Jyutping is _finally_ available on iOS as of only two years ago, but tbh writing some words in jyutping is so gnarly. Like, 嗰個女仔係我朋友。go go neoi/leoi zai hai ngo pang jau. or 兩個窗口 loeng go coeng hau. The jyutping is kind of cofusing for the oe versus eo sounds, and kind of _long_. In those cases, cangjie is faster. For characters that aren’t easy to remember in mandarin like 佢 (keoi - meaning him/her), it’s easier to use cangjie or jyutping for sure. ---
**Author:** ![akitak9821](https://community-cdn.hanzihero.com/user_avatar/community.hanzihero.com/akitak9821/32/787_2.png) [@akitak9821](https://community.hanzihero.com/u/akitak9821)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://community.hanzihero.com/t/cangjie-or-other-writing-based-inputs/4625/8 "2025-02-11T23:23:34Z")
Oof that looks nice. I got some cangjie stickers for my keyboard a few years ago, but typing so much for everything under the sun slowly rubbed them off or diagonal lol.