Chinese character order, or Chinese character indexing, Chinese character collation and Chinese character sorting (simplified Chinese: 汉字排序; traditional Chinese: 漢字排序; pinyin: hànzì páixù), is the way in which a Chinese character set is sorted into a sequence for the convenience of information retrieval. It may also refer to the sequence so produced.
English dictionaries and indexes are normally arranged in alphabetical order for quick lookup, but Chinese is written in tens of thousands of dif Th...