Dayi (, literally "big easy") is a system for entering Chinese characters on a standard QWERTY keyboard using a set of 46 character components. A character is built by combining up to four of the 46 characters (the other six are provided for typing Taiwanese addresses), using a system similar to that of Cangjie, but is decomposed in stroke order instead of in geometric shape in Cangjie. On most keyboards in Taiwan, most keys show four symbols. On the keys, the Latin letters are in the upper left, Bopomofo symbols on the upper right, Cangjie symbols on the lower left, and Dayi symbols on the lower right. Layout Like Cangjie, every radical has some auxiliary shapes; but some of the auxiliary shapes of one radical originate from the mnemonic word of the radical. For example, key 6 is mapped to 車(car) in the keyboard, its mnemonic word is "6片車門"(six pieces of car door), and its auxiliary shapes include "片"(piece), "爿"(old character for "wall", its shape is the reflection of "片"), "甫"(its shape is like "車"), "門"(door), "鬥"(to battle or to fight, its shape is like "門"). Methodology The following are rules of the Dayi input method: Input is with accordance to Chinese writing stroke order: "top first, then bottom", "left first, then right". For characters made of more than 4 symbols, enter the first three and the last symbol.For instance, "壽" (士乛工口手舟) is represented by just 4 symbols: 士乛工舟 (FBR.). For symmetrical characters, enter the center followed by either side.For instance, "巫" is represented by 工人人 (RAA). "臼" (W) is the wildcard key for the top part of words regardless of the contents:Examples:兒 = 臼儿 (WQ)與 = 臼一八 (WE8)覺 = 臼冖目儿 (WM3Q) Sample Learning Technique One common frustration of learning any Chinese input method is not knowing the correct sequence of keys to enter. This problem can be alleviated with the help of an answer table. The following technique can be used to familiarize oneself with the Dayi keyboard layout. Speed and proficiency will develop with additional practice. This technique can be used with other input methods as well using similar lookup tables as answers. Find a source of commonly used Chinese vocabulary to type. This can may be found on the Internet by usage frequency or HSK level. For Dayi, use the list of Chinese Traditional words.(Also see List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese) Navigate to a