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SUMMARY

For Chinese characters, at least for simplified chinese used in PRC, they should be sorted by their Pinyin order.

OBSERVED RESULT

Please see the attachment below.

EXPECTED RESULT

For example, the pinyin of "直尺" is "zhi chi", so it should be grouped by the first pinyin character "z", then just sort its pinyin and other words。

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

https://www.quora.com/How-does-alphabetical-order-or-sorting-order-work-in-Chinese?share=1

And there are also some libraries that can convert chinese characters to pinyin on github.