Stroke orders of CJK Unified Ideographs (YES order) explained

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]}

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, ": ㇐㇑㇓㇔㇟".^[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]} 札 (GB) : １２３４５, 札 (YES): ㇐㇑㇓㇔㇟.

YES order

See main article: YES stroke alphabetical 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: ㇐ ㇕ ㇅ ㇎ ㇡ ㇋ ㇊ ㇍ ㇈ ㇆ ㇇ ㇌ ㇀ ㇑ ㇗ ㇞ ㇉ 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]}

• Stroke orders of CJK Unified Ideographs in YES order, part 1 of 4 (characters starting with 一)
• Stroke orders of CJK Unified Ideographs in YES order, part 2 of 4 (characters starting with ㇑)
• Stroke orders of CJK Unified Ideographs in YES order, part 3 of 4 (characters starting with ㇓)
• Stroke orders of CJK Unified Ideographs in YES order, part 4 of 4 (characters starting with ㇔)

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]

Notes and References

1. https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U4E00.pdf Official Unicode code chart of CJK Unified Ideographs
2. Book: Zhang, Xiaoheng. Li . Xiaotong (张小衡, 李笑通) . 一二三笔顺检字手册 (Handbook of the YES Sorting Method). 语文出版社 (The Language Press) . 2013 . 978-7-80241-670-3 . Beijing . zh.
3. Book: Su, Peicheng 苏培成 . zh:现代汉字学纲要 . Essentials of Modern Chinese Characters . 商务印书馆 (The Commercial Press, Shangwu) . 2014 . 978-7-100-10440-1 . 3rd . 82-84. Beijing . zh.
4. Book: 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)). National Language Commission of China . October 1, 1999. Shanghai Education Press . zh. 7-5320-6674-6.
5. Book: Wang . Ning (王寧) . Zou . Xiaoli (鄒曉麗) . zh:工具書 . Reference Books . 和平圖書有限公司 . 2003 . 23-25. 962-238-363-7 . Hong Kong . zh.
6. Web site: Unicode CJK Strokes. The Unicode Standard. 2023-06-21.
7. Book: Li, Xiaotong (李笑通) . 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)) . Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, Hong Kong Polytechnic University . 2011 . Hong Kong . zh.
8. Book: Zhang, Xiaoheng . Li . Xiaotong . Chinese Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing Based on Naturally Annotated Big Data - Lecture Notes in Computer Science . Springer Verlag . 2015 . 9783319258157 . Switzerland . 3–14 . en . Building a collation element table for a large Chinese character set in YES.
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. link to the book.
10. Book: PRC, National Language Commission . 通用规范汉字笔顺规范 (Stroke Orders of the Commonly-used Standard Chinese Characters). the Commercial Press. 2021 . 978-7-100-19347-4. Beijing. zh.
11. Book: Taiwan, 國語推行委員會 (National Language Promotion Committee). 常用國字標準字體筆順手册 (Handbook of the Stroke Orders of the Commonly-Used National Chinese Characters). Ministry of Education . 1996 . 978-9-57-090664-6. Taipei. zh.