In 1926, Mr Hu Shi, who had a thorough knowledge of both western and Chinese learning and was awarded 26 PhD titles, said that arranging Chinese characters is the most difficult thing, but on the other hand it has to be done. Firstly, classifying and ordering Chinese characters … … the sequence of Chinese characters is the basis of all kinds of indexes. The difficulties mentioned above arise from the fact that Chinesecharacters are unordered. Neither of precedent nor present methods that trying to order Chinese characters by radical, Pinyin, number or stroke, cannot make the breakthrough. One of the core technology of numerical Wangma ‘first and remaining radical’ coding method, could digitalize the Chinese character graph in one step. It is not only an easy-learning input method, but also an easy-learning ordering method featuring good uniqueness. This technology makes Chinese character input method compatible with dictionary lookup method, and gives Chinese characters a ‘readable numeric sequence’. This is ‘The theory of Chinese character sequence’.

冠有32个博士头銜、学贯中西的大学问家胡适先生1926年写道：“中国字的整理是一件最难的事。然而这件事业却又是不得不做的事。第一，字的分类与排列……第二，字的次第又是一切‘索引’的基本”。 究其所难，盖因汉字实际上是一种“无序”的文字。无论现行的和此前的哪一种部首、拼音、号码、笔画“字序法”，都不足以突破胡适所说的难题。数字王码专利的一项核心技术——“首部－余部”编码法，可使汉字图形“一步到位数字化”，既是易学易用的汉字“输入法”，又是简单易学、唯一性好的汉字“排序法”。依此可实现电脑汉字输入法与查字法的“大一统”，汉字便可以成为有“可读性数码序列”的文字，是为《汉字有序论》。

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