How to get stroke count of Chinese character?

How to get stroke count of Chinese character?

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一 => 1

十 => 2

日 => 4

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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.

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

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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