| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a character input device and method which is easy for many users to use for inputting Kanji idioms with a simple operation. <P>SOLUTION: When a Kanji idiom to be retrieved is inputted, the first Kanji character is inputted by selecting any of Japanese reading input, radical reading input, radical stroke-count input and total stroke-count input. The inputted Kanji is stored in an input idiom information 24d of a storage part 24. In the same way, when the second Kanji character and following characters are inputted by selecting one of those plurality of input methods and stored in the idiom information 24d. When the idiom retrieval is performed in this case, a dictionary database part 23 is searched by using the idiom of two or more Kanji characters stored in the input idiom information 24d as a retrieval key. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI |
