page_title: Cangjie input method
section_title: Keyboard layout
hierarchical_section_title: Cangjie input method / Overview of the input method / Keyboard layout
caption_attribution_description: English: Keyboard layout cangjie
context_page_description: The Cangjie input method is a system by which Chinese characters may be entered into a computer using a standard computer keyboard. The input method was invented in 1976 by Chu Bong-Foo, and was suggested by Chiang Wei-kuo, the then Defense Minister of Taiwan, to be named after Cangjie, the mythological inventor of the Chinese writing system. Although the input method was initially based upon traditional Chinese characters, it has since been revamped so that Cangjie and the simplified Chinese character set can interact.
  Cangjie is the first Chinese input method that uses the QWERTY keyboard. Other earlier methods use large keyboards with 40 to 2400 keys, except the Four-Corner Method which uses only the number keys. Chu saw that the QWERTY keyboard had become an international standard, and therefore believed that Chinese-language input had to be based on it.
  Chu Bong-Foo released the patent of Cangjie in 1982 as he thought that it should belong to the Chinese cultural heritage. Therefore, Cangjie has become open-source software—free for anyone to use and modify—making Cangjie ubiquitous on every computer system that supports traditional Chinese.
caption: A typical keyboard layout for Cangjie method, based on United States keyboard layout. Note the non-standard use of Z as the collision key.
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