While teaching English and learning to recognise a few Chinese characters, I’ve realised something. Something we probably take for granted (as speakers of languages with an alphabet with letters) is #alphabeticalorder…
We use it in so many contexts, but what if there is no #alphabet (just thousands of characters)?
I have no idea if there is a substitute here, but I guess I could find out…
#randomthoughts #languages #TEFL #Mandarin #Taiwan #expatlife | 🇿🇦in🇹🇼
@jeanpaulphd The biggest sorting order is the number of strokes in a character. The second is radicals that are used in the character.
@dlupham thanks. I’m not a linguist, but I have an amateur interest in socio-linguistics…
@jeanpaulphd And no acronyms. I visited several telecom companies in Japan to give classes and telecom is full of acronyms