6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 , wherein the second layout of characters is centered about the selected first character and a plurality of characters based on and including the selected first character.
6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 , wherein the second layout of characters is centered about the selected first character and a plurality of characters based on and including the selected first character. 7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6 , wherein the second layout of characters includes potential characters used to form a multi-character compound vowel for a Chinese syllable, the multi-character compound vowel beginning with the selected first character.