Programatically determine number of strokes in a chinese character?

Question

Does Unicode store this information about characters?

Answer 1

You mean, is it encoded somehow in the actual code point? No. There may well be a table somewhere you can find on the net (or create one) but it's not part of the Unicode mandate to store this sort of metadata.

Answer 2

A little googling came up with this zipped file published by the Unicode Consortium which contains several text files including Unihan_RadicalStrokeCounts.txt which may be what you want.

Answer 3

If you want to do character recognition goggle HanziDict.

Also take a look at the Unihan data site:

http://www.unicode.org/charts/unihanrsindex.html

You can look up stroke count and then get character info. You might be able to build your own look up.