Typing chinese characters stroke by stroke

[sagech]

Hello there,

Are there any software that allows one to type Chinese characters stroke by stroke? See the picture below to get what I mean:

http://www.chinese-outpost.com/language/images/characters/ORDR.GIF

I want to be able to type each individual stokes out.

[elliott50]

Certainly the wenlin combined chinese text editor and dictionary look up tool lets you do this very successfully (www.wenlin.com).

I have successfully used handwritten chinese input on windows vista (and I understand windows 7 has it too) though you may need to pay for a more professional version of the OS.

Both of the above work well with a pen+tablet instead of a mouse.

Alternatively, on a Mac, the Snow Leopard system has a pretty good character recognition system built in.

There is also a way of mapping each type of character stroke to a key and then using them in combination - WUBI (I think) but I have not used it.

[Hero Doug]

Your phone might use stroke input as well (my last two Nokia's did). If you're looking to practice stroke order it might be a good way to kill some time while waiting around.

[sagech]

Thanks for the replies!

I am sorry if I have misworded my previous post.

What I meant was, are there any software that can generate a sequence of strokes, stroke-by-stroke, that makes up a chinese character? This is for the purpose of creating worksheets.

[AdamD]

http://www.eon.com.hk/estroke/

I use the iPhone version regularly. It's marvellous.

Edit: Mmmm, I don't know if the PC/Mac version can help you with worksheets.

[Hero Doug]

I have the PC version of estroke and it can make worksheets that you can print out.