This paper presents a novel approach for solving the problems associated with inputting Chinese characters for processing by digital computers. The idea adopted in solving this problem is that of construction pattern recognition (CPR), and it is developed based on some concepts from the artifical intelligence (AI) field. The method presented here is markedly different from the currently existing inputting methodologies used when dealing with Chinese characters. In our approach, a Chinese character (word) is treated as a graph, rather than as a character of a language. It is then analysed, through pattern recognition, using some computing points associated with the Chinese character in the construction process used. The CPR approach has two basic advantages: (a) it is flexible, in as much as it allows the computer to accept both western and oriental languages; and (b) it offers the most user friendly inputting environment to the end user.