How to get stroke count of Chinese character?

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Example>

一 => 1

十 => 2

日 => 4

Can you use a lookup table? http://technology.chtsai.org/charfreq/characters.html — Gabe, Sep 07 '11 at 04:11
See question [Programatically determine number of strokes in a chinese character](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2398334/programatically-determine-number-of-strokes-in-a-chinese-character). — lschin, Sep 08 '11 at 04:21

Jonathan Grynspan · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-09T00:35:20.657

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Short answer: You can't without a hardcoded map of characters to stroke counts. And then, you'll have to assume the user is using a particular Chinese variant (e.g. traditional.)

Unicode (the basic character set used by NSString) doesn't distinguish between traditional, simplified, Japanese-specific, Korean-specific, etc. hanzi. Unicode does not encode stroke information directly. Rather, it distinguishes between characters (not their graphical representations) and a character may have different stroke counts depending on language and font used. So while the character 十 may universally have two strokes, other characters will vary.

The example Wikipedia gives is the character for "grass", U+8279, which has four strokes in traditional Chinese, but 3 in every other variant.

edited Apr 09 '14 at 00:35

answered Sep 07 '11 at 04:15

Jonathan Grynspan

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Is stroke count constant, if user set international settings? (like contacts app) – ChangUZ Sep 07 '11 at 04:46
Maybe, but there still won't be an API for you to get the stroke count. There's no OS-defined `GetStrokeCount()` function or anything like that. – Jonathan Grynspan Sep 07 '11 at 11:52

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 05 '22 at 11:04

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You can use "ssc install cnstroke" STATA command for the said purpose.

answered Sep 05 '22 at 11:04

Muhammad Usman

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score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 27 '14 at 17:55

Thanks, math.

First, call

NSInteger section = [[UILocalizedIndexedCollation currentCollation] sectionForObject:yourObject collationStringSelector:@selector(objectsProperty)];

then check index of section in following array

[UILocalizedIndexedCollation currentCollation].sectionTitles

Remember to add

Localized resources can be mixed = YES

in info.plist

How to get stroke count of Chinese character?

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