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Subscribe (Atom)New beginner's guide: How to Learn Cangjie
A new reference article, How to Learn Cangjie: A Complete Beginner's Guide, explains the input method from scratch: how Cangjie decomposes characters, the radicals, the order to learn them, a practice routine and common pitfalls, with links into the lessons, radical table, first-code page and dictionary.
Open →Step-by-step stroke breakdowns for the tenth lesson of 千字文, completing all 1,000 characters
All 100 characters in the final lesson of 千字文 now show a step-by-step breakdown. With this, every one of the 1,000 characters in the whole text is fully annotated, coloring which strokes each Cangjie code covers.
Open →Step-by-step stroke breakdowns for the ninth lesson of 千字文
All 100 characters in the ninth lesson of 千字文 now show a step-by-step breakdown, coloring which strokes each Cangjie code covers.
Open →Step-by-step stroke breakdowns for the eighth lesson of 千字文
All 100 characters in the eighth lesson of 千字文 now show a step-by-step breakdown, coloring which strokes each Cangjie code covers.
Open →Step-by-step stroke breakdowns for the seventh lesson of 千字文
All 100 characters in the seventh lesson of 千字文 now show a step-by-step breakdown, coloring which strokes each Cangjie code covers.
Open →New series: Word Games (character-composition poems)
A new Word Games series collects classic character-composition poems. Each line spells out the parts that build a character, for example 山 plus 高 makes 嵩, and 中 plus 心 makes 忠, which mirrors the way Cangjie itself breaks characters into radicals. It includes works by Qingyuan Zhenyou, Liu Yizhi, the Four Talents of Jiangnan, Kong Rong, and Bai Juyi.
Open →Step-by-step stroke breakdowns for the sixth lesson of 千字文
All 100 characters in the sixth lesson of 千字文 now show a step-by-step breakdown, coloring which strokes each Cangjie code covers.
Open →Step-by-step stroke breakdowns for the fifth lesson of 千字文
All 100 characters in the fifth lesson of 千字文 now show a step-by-step breakdown, coloring which strokes each Cangjie code covers.
Open →Step-by-step stroke breakdowns for the fourth lesson of 千字文
All 100 characters in the fourth lesson of 千字文 now show a step-by-step breakdown, coloring which strokes each Cangjie code covers.
Open →Free lessons, no account needed
You can now try a set of lessons for free, with no account or subscription, right here on the site. The separate demo at demo.cangjieworkbook.com has been merged in and now redirects to www.cangjieworkbook.com, so the free content lives here.
Open →New FAQ page
A new FAQ page answers common questions about Cangjie Workbook and the Cangjie input method: how hard it is to learn, how long it takes, what it costs, which platforms it works on, and how Cangjie compares to pinyin and Quick. Available in both English and Chinese.
Open →Dictionary pages now show readings, meaning, radical and strokes
Every character page (for example 看) now shows the Mandarin reading (zhuyin and pinyin), an English definition, the radical and the stroke count alongside the Cangjie code and step-by-step breakdown, so a code lookup also tells you about the character. The data comes from Unicode's Unihan database.
Open →New Reference section, with a first deep dive on the opening code
A new evergreen Reference section collects Cangjie topics that stay valid over time. The first article is a deep dive on the opening code: the scan order, why a stroke at the top is usually taken as 竹, why a leading hook counts as 弓, and look-alike characters whose first codes differ, each with a step-by-step breakdown.
Open →Step-by-step stroke breakdowns for the third lesson of 千字文
All 100 characters in the third lesson of 千字文 now show a step-by-step breakdown, coloring which strokes each Cangjie code covers.
Open →Step-by-step stroke breakdowns for the second lesson of 千字文
All 100 characters in the second lesson of 千字文 now show a step-by-step breakdown, coloring which strokes each Cangjie code covers.
Open →Customize the stroke-annotation colors
Settings now lets you customize the stroke-annotation colors: apply a preset (red–green and blue–yellow colorblind options, plus high-contrast), or fine-tune each Cangjie code position — preview the change on common characters before saving, with a warning when two positions look too similar to tell apart.
Open →Step-by-step stroke breakdowns for the whole opening of 千字文
All 100 characters in the opening lesson of 千字文 now show a step-by-step breakdown, coloring which strokes each Cangjie code covers.
Open →Added the 弟子規 (Dizigui) series
Li Yuxiu's classic 弟子規 is now a practice text — work through it line by line while drilling Cangjie codes.
Open →More essays about Taiwan and Hong Kong
The practice-article library grows with more short essays on everyday Taiwan and Hong Kong topics.
Open →Open dictionary, per-character pages, and bilingual pages
The Cangjie dictionary and a dedicated code page for every character are now open to everyone, in both Chinese and English.
Open →New lessons: most-common characters 501–600
The most-common-characters track now reaches rank 600, every character annotated.
Open →New lessons: most-common characters 301–500
Two more hundreds added to the most-common-characters track, fully annotated.
Open →Localized subscription pricing (JPY, TWD, HKD)
Subscription prices now show in your local currency (Japanese yen, New Taiwan dollar, Hong Kong dollar) for a clearer checkout.
Added the 三字經 (Three Character Classic) series
Wang Yinglin's 三字經 joins the practice texts — a natural way to build up common characters.
Open →Step-by-step stroke breakdowns for the top 300 characters
The 300 most-common characters now show an hkcards-style breakdown, coloring which strokes each code covers.
Most-common characters 201–300, ranked by Tsai's frequency list
The common-character track is now ordered by Chih-Hao Tsai's Traditional-Chinese frequency list, with ranks 201–300 added.
Open →Added 千字文 (Thousand Character Classic) and Cangjie typing input
Zhou Xingsi's 千字文 joins the practice texts, and the dictionary now accepts Cangjie-code input for lookups.
Open →Added About, Privacy, and Terms pages
A new About page explaining what the site is for, plus a Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
Open →New lessons on Cangjie code selection (取碼)
New lessons walk through the Cangjie code-selection rules — how to pick the right codes for a character.
Open →New character-decomposition (漢字分割) lessons
A new set of lessons teaches how to split characters into parts (head, body, and so on) — the foundation of Cangjie code-taking.
Open →Color-coded radical annotations on the first 100 characters
The first 100 characters now show color-coded annotations, so it's easy to see which radical each Cangjie code maps to.
Open →Added a Cangjie code & auxiliary-shape reference
A reference panel you can open from any screen to look up Cangjie radicals and their auxiliary shapes.
Practice with your own custom texts
Subscribers can paste in their own text and practice typing it with Cangjie.
Accounts and cross-device progress sync
Sign in with an account and your progress is saved to the cloud, so you can pick up where you left off on any device.
In-header English / Chinese language toggle
Switch the interface between Chinese and English right from the header — the whole site is bilingual.