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> Isn't this just an arbitrary order

yeah but there are very limited number of alphabetical letters and commonly agreed order as a convention.

There's no such a thing in Chinese. For example, you can't easily sort names by A-Z in Chinese except PinYin (or Unicode codepoints for what matters)



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