Programmatically determine number of strokes in a Chinese character?

Question

Does Unicode store stroke count information about Chinese, Japanese, or other stroke-based characters?

Answer 1

In Python there is a library for that:

>>> from cjklib.characterlookup import CharacterLookup
>>> cjk = CharacterLookup('C')
>>> cjk.getStrokeCount(u'日')
4

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