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eZiText™ Chinese is an intelligent input system for stroke or phonetic entry on any limited form factor electronic device. It enables users to quickly compose text through intuitive input and automatic prediction of characters, words and even whole phrases.

eZiText Chinese phrase-level input example
This example shows the phrase "long time, no see" () predicted in only five key presses with phrase-level input. Enter Pinyin by typing the initial letter only, the full spelling or by mixing the two.


Usability - Simply Fast And Easy To Use

eZiText's unique combination of powerful features provide simple, fast and personalized Chinese input. Its diverse range of input modes, character sets and features enable device manufacturers to customize solutions that are tailored to the communication needs of users in specific markets.

NGT Mega-X
The Mega-X by NGT has eZiText Chinese and English embedded

Powerful Features

  • Phrase-level prediction
  • Personalization with the Personal Dictionary
  • Learning with the Used Word Dictionary
  • Initial-only phonetic input (Pinyin or Zhuyin)
  • Multi-source prediction

Easy Regionalization

  • Intuitive input systems
  • Customized character set options:
    • People's Republic of China
    • Hong Kong
    • Taiwan


Reliability - Proven Market Success

Zi technology expertise and commitment to delivering the most intuitive Chinese text input system has generated over 60 licensees. Licensees include global as well as China, Korea and Taiwan-based device manufacturers such as Amoi, Bird, LG Electronics, NGT, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and more.

Zi Chinese solutions are patented in the PRC and USA, and fully certified with Chinese regulatory bodies governing software and input. eZiText supports the GB 13000.1 and GB 18030 standards for characters sets over 6,763 characters. This is critical to the market as most mid to high-end handsets sold in China employ character sets above this benchmark.

Portability - Easy To Implement

The modular architecture of eZiText uses one core engine with any combination of character sets, input modes and advanced features. This allows device manufacturers to customize functionality for any target market while reducing integration effort and device memory.

eZiText LITE Chinese offers the smallest memory footprint of any fully functional solution to fit on microprocessors as small as 8-bits.


eZiText Chinese Contact

For more information on Zi Corporation text entry products or to get in touch with a Zi representative email us at info@zicorp.com.

Text Entry Updates




NEW In Version 7.1

"Phrase" your words faster than ever! New eZiText features provide the most flexible text entry solution available.

Phrase-Level Stroke Input

Phrase-level input has been extended from phonetic mode to stroke mode. Transition seamlessly between character and phrase-level input to predict even faster, without the need to pause and select each character.

Run-On Phrase-Level Input

Type a phrase using stroke, Pinyin or Zhuyin, even if no match can be found in the database. Run-on phrase-level input allows for the entire Pinyin spelling to be typed without interruption.

Fuzzy Phonetic Input

Designed to aid input of Pinyin and Zhuyin for native speakers of other regional dialects, eZiText presents the desired characters regardless of common phonetic errors.

Cangjie Input

With the addition of Cangjie, users in Hong Kong and Taiwan can reduce ambiguity and input text faster using up to five coded Cangjie letters that represent traditional Chinese characters. eZiText supports standard and simplified Cangjie input.





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