JPH01271871A - Kanji input method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To select a desired radical in a short time based on the number of strokes of the radical by providing a means having the stroke number information on each radical to a radical dictionary, inputting the stroke number and displaying the radical corresponding to the input stroke number. CONSTITUTION:A user performs the input of the number of strokes of a radical forming a desired KANJI (Chinese character) via an input part 11. Thus the input stroke number is displayed at a display part 12 and at the same time supplied to a radical dictionary 13. The dictionary 13 retrieves the radical corresponding to said stroke number and delivers the retrieved radical to the part 12 to display. The user selects the radical of the desired KANJI out of one or plural radicals displayed at the display part 12 via an input part 11. This selected radical is supplied to a radical index dictionary part 15. The part 15 retrieves the KANJI corresponding to said radical out of a radical index dictionary 14 via the input radical and displays the KANJI at the part 12 to designate one of those displayed KANJI. Thus it is possible to select a desired radical in a short time via the dictionary 13 based on the number of strokes of the radical with input of the stroke number.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a kanji input method used in 1) a dli word processor, a personal computer, an information processing terminal having a dli language processor, and the like.

(Prior Art) Figure 3 shows the configuration of a conventional kanji input method. In FIG. 3, 21 is an input section for inputting radicals;
2 is a display unit that displays radicals; 23 is a radical index dictionary; 24
is the radical index dictionary search section.

Next, the operation of the conventional example will be explained. In FIG. 3, the display unit 22 displays a list of radicals, and the input unit 21 uniquely selects a specific radical from the list.

Based on the selected radical, the radical index dictionary search unit 24 searches the radical index dictionary 23 for the corresponding kanji group.

In this way, even with the conventional kanji input method, it is possible to select and input kanji whose radicals are known in advance.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) However, in the above-mentioned conventional kanji input method, in order to identify a desired radical from among more than 200 kinds of radicals, it is necessary to input each radical one by one. had to be determined visually. Additionally, in order to uniquely specify a radical, there has been a method of inputting the pronunciation of the radical as a hiragana character string, but this method cannot be used if the correct name of the radical is not known. there were.

The present invention solves these conventional problems,
It is an object of the present invention to provide an excellent kanji input method that allows selecting a target radical in a short time.

(Means for Solving the Problems) In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides means for having stroke count information corresponding to each radical in a radical dictionary, and by inputting the stroke count, it is possible to correspond to the stroke count. By displaying the radical to be used, it is possible to easily select the desired radical, and by inputting the radical, the Kanji can be input.

(Function) The present invention has the following effects due to the above configuration. In other words, when a user inputs the number of strokes of a radical of a desired kanji, the radical corresponding to the number of strokes is searched from the radical dictionary and displayed. You can select the radical you need. By selecting a radical, the final target kanji can be searched and input from the radical index dictionary.

(Embodiment) FIG. 1 shows the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. In Fig. 1, 11 is an input section for inputting radicals and the number of strokes of radicals, 12 is a display section for displaying input information such as radicals and searched radicals and kanji, and 13 is a radical dictionary. , 14 is a radical index dictionary, and 15 is a radical index dictionary search unit. Second
The figure shows an example of a radical dictionary.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be explained. In the embodiment described above, the user uses the input unit 11 to input the number of strokes of a radical forming a target kanji. The input number of strokes is displayed on the display unit 12 and is also input into the radical dictionary 1:3. The radical dictionary [3] searches for a radical corresponding to the number of strokes, and the radical obtained by the search is output to the display section [2] and displayed.

When the user selects a radical constituting the desired kanji from the one or more radicals displayed on the display section 12 using the input section 11, the selected radical is entered in the radical index dictionary. The input radical is input to the search unit 15, and the radical index dictionary search unit 15 uses the input radical to search the radical index dictionary 14 for the kanji that corresponds to the radical, and the kanji that is the search result (in this case The number of kanji (one or more) is displayed on the display section 12, and one kanji is designated from among them.

In this way, when the radical is not known but the number of strokes is known, by the user inputting the number of strokes from the input unit 11, the radical dictionary 13 can select the radical from the number of strokes.

Once a radical is selected, a specific Kanji character can be selected and input using a radical search performed in the prior art.

As a specific example, when searching for the kanji ``Buddha'', if you do not know how to pronounce ``ten'', enter the number of strokes 3 from the input section 11, and there is a second kanji in the number 3. As shown in the figure, since there are radicals such as "rL L r", these radicals are displayed on the display section 12. By selecting ``10'' from among these, even if you do not know how to pronounce ``Rishinben'', you can select ``10'' and uniquely search for ``Buddha'' among them. Also, if Risshinben is difficult to read, you can search for the kanji ``Buddha J'' using the same procedure as above.

(Effects of the Invention) As is clear from the embodiment described in "-", the present invention enables the selection and input of a specific kanji from difficult-to-read or unmemorized radicals. It has the effect of allowing you to select the neck.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a kanji input method according to an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a diagram showing an example of how radicals correspond to the number of strokes in a radical dictionary according to an embodiment of the present invention, and Fig. 3 is a conventional kanji input method. It is a block diagram of the Kanji input method in an example. Ll, 21...input section, 12.22...display section,
13... Radical dictionary, 14.23... Radical search dictionary,
15.24...Radical search dictionary search section. Patent Applicant Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. 1st Section Pastor @ Tori Shigerashihan 2
Ninpen Figure 3 1 Korori

Claims (1)

[Claims] A kanji input method comprising a means for inputting the number of strokes, a means for displaying a radical corresponding to the input number of strokes, a radical index dictionary, a means for searching the radical index dictionary, and a means for displaying a kanji.