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Programmatically determine number of strokes in a Chinese character?


Does Unicode store stroke count information about Chinese, Japanese, or other stroke-based characters?


Solution

  • A little googling came up with Unihan.zip, a file published by the Unicode Consortium which contains several text files including Unihan_RadicalStrokeCounts.txt which may be what you want. There is also an online Unihan Database Lookup based on this data.