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# Frequently Asked Questions

... Why are some fields, e.g. _kTotalStrokes_, in lists when there's seemingly not any multi-value data?

: The word back from the developers of UNIHAN is they keep some fields
multi-valued for future use.

> Apparently at the moment there is only one record with two values for
> the kTotalStrokes field in the Unihan database. However, the maintainers
> of the data intend to populate the kTotalStrokes field as needed in the
> future, and as documented in UAX #38.
>
> May 30, 2017 (Unicode 9.0)
>
> unihan-etl is designed to handle fields correctly and consistently
> according to the documentation in the database.