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> alphabets, universally have one common property: they are sortable. Isn't this just an arbitrary order? Why could I not assign numbers to chinese characters
by freilanzer 2y ago
> alphabets, universally have one common property: they are sortable.
Isn't this just an arbitrary order? Why could I not assign numbers to chinese characters and sort them? I know next to nothing about Chinese.
- est 2y ago> Isn't this just an arbitrary order yeah but there are very limited number of alphabetical letters and commonly agreed order as a convention. There's no such a thing in Chinese. For example, you can't easily sort names by A-Z in Chinese except PinYin (or Unicode codepoints for what matters)
- seanc 2y agoThe sort order of the alphabet symbols is arbitrary, but since all of the words are composed of an ordered set of symbols then sorting the words relative to one another is trivial.