Patent ID: 8386236

Claim:
A method for prompting by suggesting a stroke order of a Chinese character on an electronic device having a phonetic transcription input method installed, wherein the electronic device comprises a database for storing codes of Chinese characters, at least one stroke order of at least one handwriting of each of the Chinese characters, and the at least one handwriting of each of the Chinese characters, and the method comprises: starting a handwriting input function provided by the electronic device; identifying, by the electronic device, a handwritten character input through the phonetic transcription input method; obtaining, by the electronic device, at least one Chinese character code corresponding to the handwritten character from the database; recording, by the electronic device, an input process of the handwritten character into the at least one handwriting of the handwritten character and the at least one stroke order of the at least one handwriting of the handwritten character in the database, according to the Chinese character code corresponding to the handwritten character; and showing, by the electronic device, a stroke order of a handwriting of the input character from the database according to the Chinese character code.