The Surname Stroke Order (Simplified Chinese:姓氏笔划排列) arose as an impartial method of categorization in the order on which names appear in official documentation or in ceremonial procedure without any line of hierarchy. It is similar to an alphabetical order of names, but in Chinese this is impractical as the Chinese written language lacks an alphabetical structure, and the general populace does not rely on the pinyin Romanization, from which some order schemes have developed. Written Chinese comprises the written symbols used to represent Spoken Chinese and the rules about how they are arranged and punctuated Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most common Standard Mandarin Romanization system in use In official setting, the number of strokes in a person's surname determines where a person should be placed and the list order. A stroke is the rapidly developing loss of brain functions due to a disturbance in the blood vessels supplying blood to the brain Chinese family name is one of the hundreds or thousands of Family names that have been historically used by Han Chinese and Sinicized Chinese ethnic Surnames "Ding" and "Wang" (written simply in the Chinese language with 2 and 4 strokes, respectively, "丁", "王") for example, are simple surnames that usually appear on the front of lists, while surnames such as "Dai" and "Wei" ("戴", "魏", both written with 17 strokes) appear on the bottom of lists. Ding ( is the simplest written Chinese family name in existence (the only character that is simpler is "一" i Wang ( 王; Pinyin: Wáng is one of the most common and ancient Chinese family names It is ranked 8th in the Hundred Family Surnames, and