Simplified Chinese Solaris User's Guide

How to Use Wildcard Characters in English_Chinese Lookups

You can use the wildcard characters asterisk (*) or question mark (?) to search a system dictionary. The * stands for one or more letter. The ? represents only one letter.

  1. To search for all the English words that end with lution, type input *lution. The lookup choice window appears as shown in the following figure.

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  2. To search for all three-letter English words which begin with c, type c??.

    The lookup choice window appears as shown in the following figure.

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