Cang Jie Radical － input

Cangjie Input
倉頡=Cāng Jié=Cang Jie, legendary scribe of the Yellow Emperor and creator of Chinese writing/Cangjie input method (computing)

main radical / variant

q, w, e, r, t, y, u, i, o, p

手/扌, 龵=shǒu=hand/(formal) to hold/person engaged in certain types of work/person skilled in certain types of work/personal(ly)/convenient/classifier for skill/CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]

田=tián=field/farm/CL:片[pian4]

水/氵, 氺=shuǐ=water/river/liquid/beverage/additional charges or income/(of clothes) classifier for number of washes

口=kǒu=mouth/classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)/classifier for bites or mouthfuls

廿=niàn[nian4]=twenty (20), in a limited number of set expressions/also written using banker's character 念

卜=bǔ[bu3]= /to divine/to forecast or estimate/(of a place to live etc) to choose.

山 =shān=mountain

戈=gē=weapon

人/亻=rén=person

心/忄,⺗=xīn=heart

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a, s, d, f, g, h, j, k, l
日=rì=sun


尸=shī=corpse


木=mù=wood


火=huǒ=fire

土=tǔ=earth

竹/⺮=zhú=bamboo


十=shí=ten

大=dà=big


中=zhōng=centre

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z,x,c,v,b,n,m
重=zhòng=heavy/serious/to attach importance to/collision

難=nán=difficult


金／钅= jīn=gold

女=nǚ=woman

月=yuè=moon

弓＝gōng＝bow

一＝yī＝one

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The short list of exceptions

Some forms are always decomposed in the same way, whether the rules say they should be decomposed this way or not. The number of such exceptions is small:

Form	Fixed decomposition
	Version 2	Version 3	Version 5
門 (door)	日 弓 (AN)
目 (eye)	月 山 (BU)
鬼 (ghost)	竹 戈 (HI)	竹 戈 (HI) or HUI	—
几 (small table)	竹 山 (HU)	竹 弓 (HN)
贏 (win)	—	卜 口 月 月 弓 (YRBBN)	卜 弓 月 山 金 (YNBUC)
虍 (tiger [radical])	卜 心 (YP)
亡 on top of 口 (吂)	卜 口 (YR)		卜 女 口 (YVR)
隹 (fowl)	人 土 (OG)
气 (air [radical])	人 山 (OU)	人 弓 (ON)	人 一 弓 (OMN)
畿 minus the 田	女 戈 (VI)
鬥 (compete)	中 弓 (LN)
阝 (mound or city radical)	弓 中 (NL)

Some forms cannot be decomposed. They are represented by an X. (Which appears as the 難 key on a Cangjie keyboard.)

Form	Fixed decomposition (v5)
臼	ＨＸ
與	ＨＸＹＣ
興	ＨＸＢＣ
盥	ＨＸＢＴ
姊	ＶＬＸＨ
齊	ＹＸ
兼	ＴＸＣ
鹿	ＩＸＰ
身	ＨＸＨ
卍	ＮＸ
黽	ＲＸＵ
龜	ＮＸＵ
廌	ＩＸＦ
慶	ＩＸＥ
淵	ＥＬＸＬ
肅	ＬＸ