The invention relates to a digital soft keyboard shape code character input method. The method is characterized by comprising the following steps: selecting ten stroke shapes, namely one vertical line, one horizontal line, one diagonal line, two vertical lines, two horizontal lines, two diagonal lines, three vertical lines, three horizontal lines, three diagonal lines and four diagonal lines from combinations of three basic stroke shapes, namely the vertical line, the horizontal line and the diagonal line; respectively mapping the ten stroke shapes onto ten number keys in a digital soft keyboard; acquiring stroke shape sets as stroke shape character root codes by clicking or sliding the number keys and using the stroke shape sets as basic Chinese character input coding elements for inputting Chinese characters through the digital soft keyboard; inputting a Chinese character by taking the first, second, third and last stroke shape character root codes of the Chinese character according to the stroke shapes of the Chinese character and the writing sequence of the Chinese character; and when the number of stroke shape character root codes of a Chinese character is less than four, inputting the Chinese character according to the number of the stroke shape character root codes. The method has the advantages of being simple, intuitive, and high in input efficiency.