Editing Alphabetical order (section)

==Similar orderings==
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The principle behind alphabetical ordering can still be applied in languages that do not strictly speaking use an [[alphabet]] – for example, they may be written using a [[syllabary]] or [[abugida]] – provided the symbols used have an established ordering.

For [[logograph]]ic writing systems, such as Chinese [[hanzi]] or Japanese [[kanji]], the method of [[radical-and-stroke sorting]] is frequently used as a way of defining an ordering on the symbols. Japanese sometimes uses pronunciation order, most commonly with the [[Gojūon]] order but sometimes with the older [[Iroha]] ordering.

In mathematics, [[lexicographical order]] is a means of ordering sequences in a manner analogous to that used to produce alphabetical order.<ref name="BaaderNipkow1999">{{cite book|author1=Franz Baader|author2=Tobias Nipkow|title=Term Rewriting and All That|year=1999|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-77920-3|pages=18–19}}</ref>

Some computer applications use a version of alphabetical order that can be achieved using a very simple [[algorithm]], based purely on the [[ASCII]] or [[Unicode]] codes for characters. This may have non-standard effects such as placing all capital letters before lower-case ones. See [[ASCIIbetical order]].

A [[rhyming dictionary]] is based on sorting words in alphabetical order starting from the last to the first letter of the word.