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Cangjie is the first Chinese input method to use the [[QWERTY]] keyboard. Chu saw that the QWERTY keyboard had become an international standard, and therefore believed that Chinese-language input had to be based on it.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://open-lit.com/listbook.php?cid=29&gbid=506&bid=18353&start=0|title=智慧之旅|author=Chu Bong-foo (朱邦復)|website=開放文學|language=zh-Hant|access-date=8 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019220938/http://open-lit.com/listbook.php?cid=29&gbid=506&bid=18353&start=0|archive-date=19 October 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> Other, earlier methods use large keyboards with 40 to 2400 keys, except the [[Four-Corner Method]], which uses only number keys.

Unlike the [[Pinyin input method]], Cangjie is based on the graphological aspect of the characters: each graphical unit, called a "[[Radical (Chinese characters)|radical]]" (not to confused with [[Kangxi radical]]s), is representedre-parented by a basic character component, 24 in total, each mapped to a particular letter key on a standard [[QWERTY]] keyboard. An additional "difficult character" function is mapped to the X key. Keys are categorized into [[Cangjie input method#Keys and "radicals"|four groups]], to facilitate learning and memorization. Assigning codes to Chinese characters is done by separating the constituent "radicals" of the characters.

==Overview==