January 21, 2010
How Is The Chinese Phone Book Organized?
Given that the Chinese written language is not alphabetical, how are the names in it organized?
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by the number of strokes…
Chinese characters are constructed from what are called “radicals,” which are tiny bits of characters that can be re-arranged, removed or added to make new characters. Each radical has a particular meaning, and when combined together with other radicals, can create many abstract meanings. Radicals have their own order (just as our alphabet has a set order), therefore the main radical of a character (usually the one that determines the meaning of the character) is used as the first “letter” of that character, and they organize that way. You can see a list of the radicals here: http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/radi…