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It is common practice in Cantonese communities to change and swap Chinese characters of similar pronunciations because of misinterpretation by different ruling governments over time or visitors from foreign villages and cities, illiteracy of local villages before the economic boom, seeking of good fortune and to replace 'bad sounding' words by using characters with a more positive meaning.
The Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (香港增補字符集; commonly abbreviated to HKSCS) is a set of Chinese characters – 4,702 in total in the initial release—used in Cantonese, as well as when writing the names of some places in Hong Kong (whether in written Cantonese or standard written Chinese sentences).
The List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters (Chinese: 常用字字形表; Jyutping: soeng4 jung6 zi6 zi6 jing4 biu2) is a list of 4762 commonly used Chinese characters and their standardized forms prescribed by the Hong Kong Education Bureau. The list is meant to be taught in primary and middle schools in Hong Kong, but does not ...
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{{Information |Description={{en|Countries (modern boundaries drawn) where Chinese characters were/are used in its official/dominant language or at least one of its official/dominant languages. * {{color|#002200}}Dark Green - Traditional Chinese characters used exclusively or almost exclusively (Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau). * {{color|GREEN ...
In Unicode 15.0, there is a multilingual character set of 149,813 characters, among which 98,682 (about 2/3) are Chinese characters sorted by Kangxi Radicals. Even very rarely-used characters are available. [38] All the 5,009 characters of the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set [39] are included in Unicode. HKSCS was developed by the Hong ...
Hong Kong Antiquities and Monuments Office; Siu Kwok Kin; Sham Sze (2001). Heritage Trails in Urban Hong Kong. Wan Li Book Co, Ltd. ISBN 962-14-2238-8. Hong Kong new towns; Digital Map; Hong Kong Place photo database; Hong Kong Tourism Association; Hong Kong Films; Hong Kong Photo 1946-1947 by Hedda Morrison
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