Method for sorting stroke sequences of contacts and mobile equipment

The invention relates to the technical field of electronic communication, in particular to a method for sorting the stroke sequences of contacts and mobile equipment. The method comprises the following steps: when a user of a mobile phone searches a target contact, matching an input search stroke with the first word strokes of contact names stored in the mobile phone; obtaining the contact names, which are stored in the mobile phone and the first word strokes of which are consistent with the search stroke input by the user of the mobile phone; and outputting contact information corresponding to the obtained contact names to a display interface of the mobile phone so that the user of the mobile phone can search a target contact from all the contact names, which are displayed on the display interface of the mobile phone and the first word strokes of which are consistent with the search stroke input by the user of the mobile phone. The contact names are searched through a stroke search manner, so that the diffic