diff --git a/unicodetools/src/main/java/org/unicode/text/UCA/RadicalStroke.java b/unicodetools/src/main/java/org/unicode/text/UCA/RadicalStroke.java
index 0c9458f12..79b011211 100644
--- a/unicodetools/src/main/java/org/unicode/text/UCA/RadicalStroke.java
+++ b/unicodetools/src/main/java/org/unicode/text/UCA/RadicalStroke.java
@@ -174,15 +174,37 @@ public RadicalStroke(String unicodeVersion) {
         System.out.println("hanInCPOrder = " + hanInCPOrder.toPattern(false));
         int numOutOfOrder = LAST_UNIHAN_11 + 1 - 0x4e00 - hanInCPOrder.size();
         System.out.println("number of original-Unihan characters out of order: " + numOutOfOrder);
-        // In Unicode 7.0, there are 313 original-Unihan characters out of order.
-        // If this number is much higher, then either the data has changed a lot,
+        // In CLDR 26..46, we generated a radical-stroke order where
+        // we treated traditional vs. simplified forms of radicals as different radicals.
+        // Effectively, the simplified-ness of a radical had more weight than
+        // the number of residual strokes.
+        // This apparently matched the allocation of the original Unihan characters.
+        // Sample Unicode 16 kRSUnicode data, where
+        // the characters with radical 120 as a group precede the ones with 120':
+        // 7E97        120.18
+        // 7E98..7E9B  120.19
+        // 7E9C..7E9D  120.21
+        // 7E9E        120.23
+        // 7E9F        120'.0
+        // 7EA0        120'.2
+        // 7EA1..7EAB  120'.3
+        // 7EAC..7EB5  120'.4
+        //
+        // Based on that, in Unicode 7.0, there were 313 original-Unihan characters out of order.
+        // The following assertion was put here as a trip wire, testing numOutOfOrder <= 320.
+        //
+        // In CLDR 46 (2024), we changed the sort order to conform to UAX #38,
+        // demoting the simplified-ness of radicals to below the number of residual strokes.
+        // For example, looking at the small sample above,
+        // characters 7E9F..7EB5 sort before 7E97 because they have fewer residual strokes.
+        // As a result, the improved radical-stroke order matches the
+        // original-Unihan code point order less well, and
+        // we got 1446 of these characters sorting differently.
+        //
+        // If this number is suddenly much higher, then either the data has changed a lot,
         // or there is a bug in the code.
         // Turn on the DEBUG flag and see if we can manually remove some characters from the set
         // so that a sequence of following ones does not get removed.
-        // TODO: Before changing the sort order to conform to UAX #38, demoting the simplified-ness
-        // of radicals to below the number of residual strokes,
-        // this successfully asserted numOutOfOrder <= 320.
-        // Find out if this is a known issue.
         assert numOutOfOrder <= 1500;
         // Exclude simplifiedRadicals so that WriteConformanceTest omits those.
         // The test data should work with both implicit-han and radical-stroke orders.