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 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 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.
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