"How do Chinese books order their index?" https://www.quora.com/How-does-a-Chinese-book-orders-its-index … Suggest a big advantage for alphabets. Anyone know differently?
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I have Chinese dictionary. Uses some lexicographic combination of "standard" ordering on the radical and number of strokes.
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From my perspective it's very ineffective!
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In Japanese (which borrowed Chinese characters) similar story, tho newer dicts break up characters into parts
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my experience: it's surprisingly easy to look up a character using stroke-count-and-order. Still not easy as an alphabet.
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