Stroke orders of CJK Unified Ideographs (YES order)

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Stroke orders of CJK Unified Ideographs (YES order) is a list of stroke orders of the CJK Unified Ideographs sorted in YES order, a simpler alternative to the traditional Radical order employed in CJK Unified Ideographs (Unicode block), List of CJK Unified Ideographs, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4. [1] [2]

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Stroke order

A stroke order is the order in which strokes are written to form a Chinese character. It can be expressed as a sequence of strokes. For example, "札: ㇐㇑㇓㇔㇟". [3] The stroke orders in the list of the present article are expressed with the YES stroke alphabet of 30 different strokes, a more accurate version based on the standard of GB13000.1 Character Set Chinese Character Order (Stroke-Based Order), which uses 5 stroke types (written as 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5). For example, the stroke order of character "札" is represented as: [4] [2] 

扑 (GB) : １２１２４, 扑 (YES): ㇐㇚㇀㇑㇔.

YES order

YES is a simplified stroke-based sorting method [5] free of stroke counting and grouping, without comprise in accuracy. Briefly speaking, YES arranges Chinese characters according to their stroke orders and an "alphabet" of 30 strokes:

㇐ ㇕ ㇅ ㇎ ㇡ ㇋ ㇊ ㇍ ㇈ ㇆ ㇇ ㇌  Cjk m str hpj.svg  ㇀ ㇑ ㇗ ㇞ ㇉ ㄣ ㇙ ㇄ ㇟ ㇚ ㇓ ㇜ ㇛ ㇢ ㇔ ㇏ ㇂

built on the basis of Unicode CJK strokes. [6]

Character list with stroke orders

This is a list of stroke orders of the 20,992 CJK Unified Ideographs (Unicode block) sorted in YES order. It is too big to display here as a whole, and has been split into 4 parts with links as follows: [1] [7] [8] [9]

The present list is based on the PRC standards. [10] [4] Versions based on the standards of Taiwan and other regions will also be developed. [11]

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Stroke Orders of the Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters is a language standard jointly published by the Ministry of Education and the National Language Commission of China in November, 2020.

CJK Unified Ideographs (YES order) is a list of CJK Unified Ideographs sorted in YES order, a simpler alternative to the traditional Radical order employed in CJK Unified Ideographs (Unicode block), List of CJK Unified Ideographs, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4.

This is sub-list 1 of Stroke orders of CJK Unified Ideographs (YES order), including all the Chinese characters beginning with stroke (or stroke segment) 一. For more details and sources, please visit the parent article.

This is sub-list 2 of Stroke orders of CJK Unified Ideographs (YES order). It includes all the Chinese characters beginning with stroke (or stroke segment) ㇑. For more details and sources, please visit the parent article.

This is sub-list 3 of Stroke orders of CJK Unified Ideographs (YES order). It includes all the Chinese characters beginning with stroke (or stroke segment) ㇓.

This is sub-list 4 of Stroke orders of CJK Unified Ideographs (YES order), including all the Chinese characters beginning with stroke (or stroke segment) 丶 or ㇏. For more details and sources, please visit the parent article.

References

  1. 1 2 Official Unicode code chart of CJK Unified Ideographs (PDF)
  2. 1 2 Zhang, Xiaoheng; Li, Xiaotong (张小衡, 李笑通) (2013). 一二三笔顺检字手册 (Handbook of the YES Sorting Method) (in Chinese). Beijing: 语文出版社 (The Language Press). ISBN   978-7-80241-670-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ Su, Peicheng 苏培成 (2014). 现代汉字学纲要[Essentials of Modern Chinese Characters] (in Chinese) (3rd ed.). Beijing: 商务印书馆 (The Commercial Press, Shangwu). pp. 82–84. ISBN   978-7-100-10440-1.
  4. 1 2 National Language Commission of China (October 1, 1999). GB13000.1字符集汉字字序(笔画序)规范 (Standard of GB13000.1 Character Set Chinese Character Order (Stroke-Based Order)) (PDF) (in Chinese). Shanghai Education Press. ISBN   7-5320-6674-6.
  5. ↑ Wang, Ning (王寧); Zou, Xiaoli (鄒曉麗) (2003). 工具書[Reference Books] (in Chinese). Hong Kong: 和平圖書有限公司. pp. 23–25. ISBN   962-238-363-7.
  6. ↑ "Unicode CJK Strokes" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-06-21.
  7. ↑ Li, Xiaotong (李笑通) (2011). 汉字“笔形笔顺排检法”的设计与应用 (Design and Application of a New Method for Sorting and Retrieving Chinese Characters according to the Stroke Form and Stroke Order (MA thesis)) (in Chinese). Hong Kong: Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
  8. ↑ Zhang, Xiaoheng; Li, Xiaotong (2015). "Building a collation element table for a large Chinese character set in YES". Chinese Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing Based on Naturally Annotated Big Data - Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Switzerland: Springer Verlag. pp. 3–14. ISBN   9783319258157.
  9. ↑ Zhang, X; Li, X; Lun, C. (2015a). "The YES-CEDICT Chinese Dictionary (一二三漢英大詞典, Trial Edition, Sorted by Traditional Chinese)". The Journal of Modernization of Chinese Language Education (中文教学现代化学报). 4 (1): the appendix list of stroke orders – via link to the book.
  10. ↑ PRC, National Language Commission (2021). 通用规范汉字笔顺规范 (Stroke Orders of the Commonly-used Standard Chinese Characters) (in Chinese). Beijing: the Commercial Press. ISBN   978-7-100-19347-4.
  11. ↑ Taiwan, 國語推行委員會 (National Language Promotion Committee) (1996). 常用國字標準字體筆順手册 (Handbook of the Stroke Orders of the Commonly-Used National Chinese Characters) (in Chinese). Taipei: Ministry of Education. ISBN   978-9-57-090664-6.
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