Smartphones have pretty good handwriting IMEs, but if you want to bypass Pinyin, Cangjie is also an interesting system - you can (could) even create new charact

Smartphones have pretty good handwriting IMEs, but if you want to bypass Pinyin, Cangjie is also an interesting system - you can (could) even create new characters with it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangjie_input_method#Early_Cangjie_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangjie_input_method#Early_Can...