Re: Sorting of Chinese song titles in Karaoke books

From: Lee Sau Dan (danlee_at_informatik.uni-freiburg.de)
Date: 03/27/05 

Date: 27 Mar 2005 09:55:25 +0800

>>>>> "Geoff" == Geoff <grw888@hotmail.com> writes:

    Geoff> I recall the character-count system in big Hong Kong record
    Geoff> stores, like HMV or Tom Lee, when I lived there. I never
    Geoff> checked, but assumed the order within groups was by
    Geoff> something like the same Chinese stroke convention as used
    Geoff> in dictionaries.

It's based on stroke-count, but not the same as in dictionaries.

Dictionaries are usually NOT ordered by stroke count. They use the
radical as the primary sort key, and stroke-count SANS radical as the
secondary sort key. If there are still clashes (which is often), then
the characters are ordered according to the stroke shape of the first
(or second, third in case of further clashes) stroke. 

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