Online Cangjie input method
Type Chinese characters in your browser with Cangjie or Quick, then learn to write them.
Letters build a code, Space or Enter picks the highlighted candidate, 1–9 pick others, , . turn pages, Esc clears. Punctuation becomes full-width automatically.
Learn Cangjie step by step
All guides →Cangjie looks hard until you see the system behind it. Follow these guides in order and you will be typing within a couple of weeks.
What is Cangjie?
How the shape-based Cangjie system turns any Chinese character into a code of up to five letters, and why Hong Kong typists still swear by it.
224 radicals & auxiliary shapes
Every Cangjie key, the family of look-alike shapes it covers, and real characters that show each shape in use.
3Decomposition rules
The handful of rules that decide every Cangjie code, including head and body, single-unit characters, enclosures and keeping shapes whole, each shown with verified examples.
4How to learn Cangjie (30-day plan)
A realistic day-by-day plan that takes you from memorising the radicals to typing everyday Chinese, with the drills that actually build speed.
5Quick (Sucheng) input explained
How Quick shortens every Cangjie code to two letters, why it creates long candidate lists, and whether you should learn it or full Cangjie.
6Difficult characters (難拆字)
The characters that trip up every Cangjie learner, grouped by the reason they are hard, with the code for each and the pattern behind it.
The Cangjie keyboard
The 24 Cangjie keys →24 radicals in four groups. Tap a key to see its auxiliary shapes and example characters.
Look up any character
Dictionary →Every entry shows the Cangjie and Quick codes, stroke order animation, radical, stroke count, Cantonese and Mandarin readings and common words.
Write Chinese characters well
Writing Guides →Stroke order, stroke types, radicals and structure: the foundations of neat handwriting and the logic that Cangjie codes are built on.
Stroke order rules
The core rules that decide the order of strokes in almost every Chinese character, with examples, exceptions and why stroke order matters.
Basic strokes & their names
The eight basic strokes, their Chinese names and common compound strokes, plus the classic calligraphy lesson hidden in the character 永.
How to count strokes
How to count strokes correctly, why turning strokes count as one, and the radicals such as 艹, 辶 and 阝 that trip people up.
Radicals (部首) explained
What radicals are, how the 214 Kangxi radicals organise every dictionary, the variant forms they take, and how radicals differ from Cangjie’s 24 keys.
Character structure
The structural patterns Chinese characters are built from, how common each one is, and how to proportion each type neatly when writing.
Six Writings (六書)
The traditional six categories of Chinese character formation, from pictographs to phono-semantic compounds, with examples and real statistics on how common each is.
Tools
Cangjie Code Lookup
Paste any Chinese text and get the Cangjie and Quick code for every character.
速Quick (Sucheng) Code Finder
See every character that shares a Quick code and how to pick it.
練Cangjie Typing Trainer
Drill codes for the most common characters and track your speed.
帖Practice Sheet Maker
Print tracing worksheets on 田字格 or 米字格 grids.
筆Stroke Order Animator
Watch and practise the stroke order of any character.
繁Traditional ↔ Simplified Converter
Convert text between Traditional and Simplified characters.