CHARACTER INPUT DEVICE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a character input device which can determine input only by the track of an input device as a pointing device such as a mouse. SOLUTION: This character input device determines an input item by the track of the input device 1 passing through an input candidate area within a certain time, and equipped with an input device 1, a data processor 2 which operates under program control, an output device 3 such as a display, and a storage device 4 having a dictionary storage part 41 which previously stores information for conversion of a reported character string to Chinese characters, an idiom, etc., of Japanese.