<p>Wubihua input method. You can find this on older chinese phones hardware keys, or with a software keyboard on smartphones. It consists of just 5 buttons, each representing a basic stroke type. You tap them in the order of writing and suggestions of the most likely character come up. My personal favourite is multiling keyboard on Android. I have no idea how to input this on windows or mac. I only use the pinyin based microsoft chinese ime.</p>

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2015-03-09T14:08:19.587Z
2015-03-09T14:08:19.587Z
Jon
<p>Sougou input method. </p>

<pre><code>If you know the name of the stroke:
</code></pre>

<p>Just input the name of that stroke, you could find it on the suggestion banner.</p>

<pre><code>If you don't know the name:
</code></pre>

<ol>
<li>You could try to input "u" firstly and see following the guide info
on the banner.</li>
<li>Right click the input method choose "表情&amp;符号"(smiley&amp;symbols) -> "特殊符号"(specials) -> 中文字符.</li>
<li>Right click the input method choose "扩展功能"(Add-ins) -> "手写输入"(Handwriting), then draw the stroke on the board. </li>
</ol>

<p>For me, I just search online and copy/paste if I need.</p>

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2015-03-10T05:55:59.793Z
2015-03-10T05:55:59.793Z
1nola
<p>In the same spirit as my <a href="https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/12594/how-to-type-%E8%BE%B6-using-%E6%8B%BC%E9%9F%B3">other question</a> about how to type certain radicals, I would like to know how to type strokes themselves.  I would like to be able to type all the strokes listed on the <a href="http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Stroke_(CJKV_character)#/Use_in_computing" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Wikipedia</a> page.  Unlike radicals, however, to the best of my knowledge, not all of these strokes have a pronunciation associated to them (well, maybe if you allow more than one syllable, e.g. heng2zhe2zhe2gou1), and so I don't even know where to begin to try to input these.</p>

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2015-03-10T02:45:08.857Z
Have you tried Google translation? You can hang write there.
PdotWang
<input-methods><strokes>
How to type strokes?
# How to type strokes?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-03-09)

In the same spirit as my [other question](https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/12594/how-to-type-%E8%BE%B6-using-%E6%8B%BC%E9%9F%B3) about how to type certain radicals, I would like to know how to type strokes themselves. I would like to be able to type all the strokes listed on the [Wikipedia](http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Stroke_(CJKV_character)#/Use_in_computing) page. Unlike radicals, however, to the best of my knowledge, not all of these strokes have a pronunciation associated to them (well, maybe if you allow more than one syllable, e.g. heng2zhe2zhe2gou1), and so I don't even know where to begin to try to input these.

**Tags:** input-methods, strokes

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Have you tried Google translation? You can hang write there.  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2015-03-09. Score: 3

Wubihua input method. You can find this on older chinese phones hardware keys, or with a software keyboard on smartphones. It consists of just 5 buttons, each representing a basic stroke type. You tap them in the order of writing and suggestions of the most likely character come up. My personal favourite is multiling keyboard on Android. I have no idea how to input this on windows or mac. I only use the pinyin based microsoft chinese ime.


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### Answer by username_3 on 2015-03-10. Score: 0

Sougou input method.

```
If you know the name of the stroke:

```

Just input the name of that stroke, you could find it on the suggestion banner.

```
If you don't know the name:

```

1. You could try to input "u" firstly and see following the guide info
   on the banner.
2. Right click the input method choose "表情&符号"(smiley&symbols) -> "特殊符号"(specials) -> 中文字符.
3. Right click the input method choose "扩展功能"(Add-ins) -> "手写输入"(Handwriting), then draw the stroke on the board.

For me, I just search online and copy/paste if I need.


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