A method, program product, and system for inputting Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) characters into a touchscreen-enabled device is provided. The touchscreen-enabled device receives a plurality of finger touch events. Each of the plurality of finger touch events is a CJK text input stroke associated with a corner of the touchscreen-enabled device. A finger touch movement direction on the touchscreen-enabled device is determined for each of the plurality of finger touch events. In response to determining the finger touch movement direction, the finger touch movement direction associated with each of the plurality of finger touch events is converted to a numeric index value. The corner that is activated by each of the plurality of finger touch events is determined and associated to the numeric index value.