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I wish there can be a mode in which the homophone candidates can be
displayed in multiple rows. On the first row are the most frequently
used word candidates and homophone character candidates. The subsequent
rows divide the other homophone character candidates according to a
characteristic. The characteristic can be:

(1) By type of tone. Chinese characters have 5 types of tones: type-1
through type-5.
(2) By common radical. Homophone characters usually can be grouped
according to radicals commonly shared. That is, some of them can have a
common radical X, some others Y, yet some others Z, and so on. This is
like that in a set of integers, some of them have a common divisor,
some others have another common divisor, and so on. And the rest which
can't be classified into any prior group are put on a last row.
(3) By semantic category. This is tricky and may only stay in
theoretical speculation. Top semantic categories are like "concrete
objects", "abstract concepts", "verbs", "adjectives", "grammatical
auxiliary characters", and more specific categories can be derived from
an existing category. Thus character selection would look like
exploring a tree.

In case there are too many rows to display, a vertical scroll bar can
come to help.

On each row, candidate characters can be sorted by computed probability
of occurring in the current context.

This idea could improve the efficiency for the user to select a desired
character candidate significantly.

Regards,
Yao Ziyuan


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