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How do Chinese speakers organize lists of words or names, like phone contacts, in “alphabetical” order when they don’t have an alphabet? (lemmit.online)
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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/Responsible-Map-2481 on 2023-09-22 22:21:16.

So from what I’ve heard of Chinese, the written language is made up of characters that represent words, and there isn’t an alphabet where all these characters come from. There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of these words.

My contacts on my phone are in alphabetical order. The English dictionary is in alphabetical order. With no alphabet how do they look up words and names easily??

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