1. A method for input of text symbols into an electronic device having a reduced keyboard, the reduced keyboard having keys representing a plurality of characters, comprising: receiving character inputs from the reduced keyboard; identifying symbol variants based on the received character inputs; displaying a list of symbol variants; selecting an input symbol from the list of symbol variants, wherein the input symbol is a Korean Hangul syllable; designating at least one Chinese Hanzi syllable to correspond to at least one Korean Hangul syllable; and replacing the Korean Hangul syllable with a Chinese Hanzi syllable.