as the Chinese language does not have an alphabet. Instead, indexing in the language for the opening ceremony is done according to stroke order, which arranges words based on how many strokes the ...

Instead of "alphabetical order", it could be more accurately called “stroke count order”, meaning it is dependent on the number of strokes used in the Chinese characters representing the ...

But China's primary language, Mandarin, doesn't have an alphabet like English ... So for the Parade of Nations order in this Olympics, nations will enter based on stroke order, which is the ...