CJK Unified Ideographs (YES order) is a list of CJK Unified Ideographs sorted in YES order, a simpler alternative to the traditional Radical order employed in CJK Unified Ideographs (Unicode block), List of CJK Unified Ideographs, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4.
YES is a simplified stroke-based sorting method free of stroke counting and grouping, without comprise in accuracy. Briefly speaking, YES arranges Chinese characters according to their stroke orders and an "alphabet" of 30 strokes: ã ã ã ã ã¡ ã ã ã ã ã ã ã ã ã ã ã ã ã£ ã ã ã ã ã ã ã ã¢ ã ã ã built on the basis of Unicode CJK strokes.
(Here is a list of the 20,992 CJK Unified Ideographs (Unicode block) sorted in YES order)
YES sorting has also been applied to the indexing of all the characters in Xinhua Zidian and Xiandai Hanyu Cidian.