Re: Order of logograms

IIRC, the usual order in Chinese dictionaries is by number of strokes.
 But I don't know how characters with the same stroke count are
ordered.

On 4/23/07, caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
> Because logograms cannot be alphabetized, how are they ordered?  There
> are Chinese dictionaries, aren't there?
>
> I have a book, "A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters," by
> Kenneth G. Henshall.  It contains "the 1,945 characters prescribed by
> the Japanese Ministry of Education for everyday use."  The first 996
> are arranged according to the six-grade system used in Japanese
> schools.  Then there is a General Use section.  But I don't understand
> how the characters are arranged within each section.
>
> Is there some standard way by which the Chinese arrange the logograms?
>
> What I want to do is develop a writing system for Senjecas similar to
> Japanese: the use of a logogram for the root of the word, along with
> letters for prefixes, suffixes, particles, etc.
>
> Charlie
>

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