[yaowenjiaozi]

> drawing characters

It's only drawing if one doesn't write the language. If I have forgotten how to write a character and have to refer to a dictionary, I'll still be writing the character, not drawing it. Compare/contrast with my trying to write Thai, Tamil, Arabic, etc - then I'll be drawing.

Personally I write Chinese on the iPhone/iPad using my index finger much faster than I enter pinyin. I find that iOS's character recognition is fairly good - as long as I get the stroke order right, even though what I have written looks like random scribbling on screen, most of the time it presents the right character.