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In Pinyin alphabetical order, where words have the same basic letters in pinyin and differ only in modifying diacritics, the unmodified letter comes before the modified letter. For example, e comes before ê (額 (è) before 欸 (ê̄)), and u comes before and ü (路 (lù) before 驢 (lǘ) and 努 (nǔ) before 女 (nǚ)).
The technical terms the author applies are "letter by letter" or "all through" for the case where spaces are ignored, and "word by word" or "nothing before something" for the case where space comes before A in the alphabet. [8]
In this order, Chinese characters are sorted by their stroke count ascendingly. A character with less strokes is put before those of more strokes. [6] For example, the different characters in "漢字筆劃, 汉字笔画 " (Chinese character strokes) are sorted into "汉(5)字(6)画(8)笔(10)[筆(12)畫(12)]漢(14)", where stroke counts are put in brackets.
The alphabetical order used by Wikipedia is based on the Unicode order and corresponds to American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Blank spaces between words in a page name are treated as an underscore "_", and are therefore ordered after upper case letters and before lower case letters. Blank spaces after a page name come before any ...
The Proto-Sinaitic script eventually developed into the Phoenician alphabet, conventionally called Proto-Canaanite, before c. 1050 BCE. [8] The oldest text in Phoenician script is an inscription on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram c. 1000 BCE. This script is the parent script of all western alphabets.
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Subsequent articles would be considered in alphabetizing, for example, a title. As for the titles Mr., Dr., etc., they are generally not spelled out in alphabetizing, though this question is obscure enough that the rule might vary from one organization to another. The Chicago Manual of Style has nothing to say about this case.
In lexicographical order, the word "Thomas" appears before "Thompson" because they first differ at the fifth letter ('a' and 'p'), and letter 'a' comes before the letter 'p' in the alphabet. Because it is the first difference, in this case the 5th letter is the "most significant difference" for alphabetical ordering.