Cangjie reference
Evergreen references on how the Cangjie input method works: decomposition rules, exception characters, and the tricky cases.
How to Learn Cangjie: A Complete Beginner's Guide
Learn the Cangjie input method from scratch, without memorizing the whole radical chart by rote. This beginner's guide explains how Cangjie decomposes characters, the radicals, the order to learn them, and a practice routine to type Traditional Chinese fluently.
Read →Cangjie practice: from zero to fluent
Want to practice Cangjie? This page shows you how to go from zero to fluent: learn the radicals and auxiliary shapes, learn how to parse characters into radicals, practice with the lessons and articles, and look up any character's Cangjie code in the dictionary.
Read →Cangjie vs Sucheng: rules and tradeoffs
Sucheng (Quick) is a simplified version of Cangjie that uses only the first and last code of the full Cangjie code. The tradeoff is you often need to pick between candidate characters. This guide explains the rules with worked examples.
Read →Cangjie radical table: keyboard and auxiliary shapes
The complete Cangjie radical table mapped to the keyboard: all 24 radicals, each with its auxiliary shapes and example characters.
Read →The 24 Cangjie radicals and their four groups
How do you remember the Cangjie radicals? Get familiar with the 24 radicals and their four groups (philosophy, strokes, body, shapes), then do our radical lessons.
Read →The first code: rules and commonly mistaken characters
The first Cangjie code follows stroke shape, not meaning or dictionary radical, so it often differs from intuition. A reference list of characters whose first code is easily mistaken, grouped by opening shape.
Read →How many Cangjie codes do you need: head, body, and the five-code limit
A Cangjie character needs at most five codes. You first split it into a head and a body. Type the head's first and last code (up to two), and the body's first, second and last codes (up to three). A character that cannot be split requires up to the first three codes plus its last.
Read →Tricky Cangjie characters: exceptions and hard-to-split characters
Some characters do not follow the usual code rules. The 難 code represents parts that are too tangled to split. You generally need to memorize these exceptions. Then there are connected characters that are hard to divide. A categorized reference to common tricky Cangjie characters, with color-coded breakdowns.
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Radical guides
A page for each Cangjie key: its radical, auxiliary shapes and example characters.