The invention relates to a Chinese character input method which inputs a Chinese character by combination of syllables and strokes of the Chinese character. The strokes of the Chinese character are divided into a basic stroke, a combined stroke and a combined component; the basic stroke comprises a point, a horizontal stroke, a vertical stroke, an oblique stroke and a turning stroke; the combined stroke comprises a combined point, a combined horizontal stroke, a combined vertical stroke, a combined oblique stroke and a combined turning stroke; the combined component comprises a horizontally-vertically cross combined component, an enclosed combined component, a point-horizontal stroke combined component, an oblique horizontal stroke-oblique vertical stroke combined component and a turning horizontal stroke-turning point combined component. The coding length of the Chinese character is of four codes, wherein the two front codes are an initial code and a final code, and the two back stroke codes are of the first stroke of the left part and the first stroke of the right part respectively for the Chinese characters with left-and-right structure, the first stroke of the upper part and the first stroke of the lower part respectively for the Chinese character with up-and-down structure and the two front strokes for other Chinese character. The initials or finals, which are easily confused, are arranged on the same keys, and similar initials or finals are orderly arranged on keys. The input method has the advantages of simple Chinese character separation rules, easy memory and low coincident code rate; thereby, the input method is applied to the Chinese character input of numeric keyboards on computers, mobile phones, cashiers and PDA.