Hey guys, I’m not a Japanese learner but I have a question about its orthography.
Does Kanji have an “alphabetical” order? To specify a bit, I noticed that in my playlist the songs whose names start with Kanji are sorted from the symbol with the lowest amount of strokes to the one with the highest amount.
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Generally there are 2 “orders”. The one you noticed is the unicode order, which is indeed in order of stroke number I believe.
The other order, is in order of 音読み(Chinese reading), which is the one usually used to list them in Japan.
There’s multiple ways that dictionaries are ordered
One is by radical where one chunk of the character is used to identify it (usually the upper left, kinda), and those 218 radicals have an order, and the characters are then ordered ordered by number of strokes
One is by pronunciation in gojuuon order, i.e. a i u e o ka ki ku ke ko etc
Some dictionaries transliterate into romaji and order by English alphabetical listing of that