Source: World Wide Web
Japan belongs to the Chinese character culture circle, and until now Chinese characters are still used in Japanese, even so, a question about the order of appearances at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics still makes the Japanese "Asahi Shimbun" reporter wonder. However, the media said in an article on the 7th that after receiving on-site teaching from Chinese staff, the reporter's problem was solved and "felt the mystery of Chinese characters." ”
The Asahi Shimbun reported that at the opening ceremony, countries and regions basically entered in the order of Chinese character strokes, for example, the strokes of the first character in Turkey were three paintings, so greece, the place of Olympic origin, entered the second, followed by Malta, and the strokes of the first characters were also three paintings. However, the next question comes, the report mentioned that the first stroke is four paintings of the country and regions there are 13 Ecuador, Japan, Belgium and so on, how to determine the order of appearance of these countries and regions makes the media interview team wonder. The idea put forward internally by the panel was to "decide the order according to the strokes of the second word," but if that were the case, Japan should have entered before Belgium.
According to the report, after the opening ceremony, the reporter was still very concerned about this matter, so he sent an email to inquire about the corresponding department of the Beijing Winter Olympics. The report wrote that in response to the media's inquiry email, the Chinese staff replied: "This question can only be answered in person." The media conveniently interviewed the Chinese staff on the afternoon of the 6th.
The Chinese staff told the media that regarding the order of admission to the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, when the number of strokes of the first word is the same, it will be in the order of "horizontal, vertical, apostrophe, dot, fold", starting from the first painting, the strokes will be compared sequentially, for example, the first painting of Belgium's "than" is horizontal, and the first painting of Japan's "Day" is vertical, so Belgium appeared before Japan. Compared with the "middle" of "Day" and "Chinese Taipei", the fourth painting of "Day" is horizontal, and the fourth painting of "Middle" is vertical, so Japan appeared before "Chinese Taipei". According to the report, this rule is very complicated, and if it is by phone or email, I am afraid it will not be understood.
The report also said that China has tens of thousands of Chinese characters to derive such regulations. Kanji is also familiar to Japanese journalists, but [through this interview] I felt the subtleties of Kanji. The Asahi Shimbun report also caused a reaction on the Japanese Internet, and many people said "it was so" after reading it, and felt "very interesting".