- Hiragana and Katakana are sorted in the order of the kana syllabary.
- English letters will be sorted alphabetically. No distinction is made between uppercase and lowercase letters.
- Numbers are sorted in descending order.
- No distinction is made between half-pitch and full-pitch English characters and symbols.
- Other kanji, symbols, and so on, are sorted in the order of their Shift-JIS codes.
The order of the kana syllabary is as follows
- Long vowel sounds (
) are treated as the vowel of the previous syllable. For example, "
" is treated as "
". - Repetition marks ("
") are treated as the same character as the character preceding the mark. For example, "
" is treated as "". - Voiced and unvoiced sounds are sorted in the following order: unvoiced sound, voiced-sound, semi-voiced sound.
- No distinction is made between hiragana, full-pitch katakana, and half-pitch katakana.