Yeah my wife uses this input method too, as I do if writing Mandarin. It's basically typing the pinyin for the characters. However, nearly everyone else in her

Yeah my wife uses this input method too, as I do if writing Mandarin. It's basically typing the pinyin for the characters. However, nearly everyone else in her family uses the type of input where you type 'strokes' of the characters to filter down the character you want to input.