Simplified Cangjie (簡易 or 速成) is an input method in which the user enters only the first and last keystrokes used in the Cangjie system, and then chooses the desired character from a list of candidate Chinese characters that pops up. This method is popular in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Simplified Cangjie is one of the very few input methods which has an IME pre-installed on Chinese-capable personal computers.
Ordinary computer users tend to learn simplified Cangjie instead of the full Cangjie method because they think that simplified Cangjie is simplier; this is especially true in Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong, since users are normally not able to use the zhuyin method due to either a lack of knowledge of Mandarin pronunciations or a lack of knowledge of the zhuyin fuhao. In practice, whether simplified Cangjie is really easier to learn is debatable, since users lack the knowledge of the Cangjie decomposition rules and therefore do not understand how to arrive at the simplified Cangjie codes of many characters.
Cangjie: Wentong, I think we must descend to the human realm and assess the damage to the Chinese characters in the human world.
Cangjie couldn’t hold back his tears upon seeing the Chinese characters he had worked hard to teach the ancient Chinese people in the old days being completely ruined.
As Cangjie was listening to the schoolteacher’s lecture outside the window, he kept nodding his head and felt immensely grateful to witness that the Chinese characters are being preserved and passed down to the next generations in Taiwan.
Unlike pinyin, Cangjie is based on the graphological aspect of the characters wherein each basic, graphical unit is represented by a basic character component, of which there are 24 in all, each mapped to a particular letter key on a standard QWERTY keyboard.
Cangjie is one of the very few input methods that can be found on most modern personal computers without the user having to download or install any additional software.
Cangjie uses all 26 keys in an English (United States) keyboard; it cannot be used to input Chinese on cell phones.
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