oh your literate? recite the alphabet
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there is a traditional order of component strokes, though. so even without pinyin there exist ways to create a linear ordering of a set of characters, the problem is just that the total set of characters isn't necessarily known
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pre-smartphones, they’d break characters down by their component parts (radicals) to find them in dictionaries they’d be ordered first by stroke count, then by frequencypic.twitter.com/7QhnZI4Vq3
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one of my favorite early discoveries after i started studying chinese was learning that they have "looking stuff up in the dictionary" contests
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Ordinal Catalog of strokes and order of strokes provides order within the class of n-stroke characters.
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