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  2. Chinese character sets - Wikipedia

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    There are 27,522 characters in the CJKV (China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam) Ideographs Area, including all the simplified and traditional Chinese characters in GB2312 and Big5 traditional. [ 37 ] 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 ...

  3. List of Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters - Wikipedia

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    The List of Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters is the current standard list of 8,105 Chinese characters published by the government of the People's Republic of China and promulgated in June 2013.

  4. Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    Chinese characters "Chinese character" written in traditional (left) and simplified (right) forms Script type Logographic Time period c. 13th century BCE – present Direction Left-to-right Top-to-bottom, columns right-to-left Languages Chinese Japanese Korean Vietnamese Zhuang (among others) Related scripts Parent systems (Proto-writing) Chinese characters Child systems Bopomofo Jurchen ...

  5. Modern Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    The Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) is a 2-byte kernel version of Unicode with 2^16=65,536 code points for important characters of many languages. There are 27,522 characters in the CJKV (China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam) Ideographs Area, including all the simplified and traditional Chinese characters in GB2312 and Big5 traditional.

  6. Chinese character structures - Wikipedia

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    There are two frequently-used modes of component combination in the study of Chinese character structures: first-level component combination and primitive component combination. [ 10 ] According to first-level component combination, the structures of decomposable characters can be divided into 13 categories: [ 11 ] [ 12 ]

  7. Traditional Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    Conversely, there is a common objection to the description of traditional characters as 'standard', due to them not being used by a large population of Chinese speakers. Additionally, as the process of Chinese character creation often made many characters more elaborate over time, there is sometimes a hesitation to characterize them as ...

  8. Simplified Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    A commonly cited example of the irregularity of simplification involves characters that share the "hand" component 又, which is used in many simplified characters. While there is an observable pattern involving the replacement of 𦰩 with 又 as seen in 漢 → 汉, 難 → 难, 癱 → 瘫, 嘆 → 叹, 灘 → 滩, when observing that 歎 ...

  9. Chinese character classification - Wikipedia

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    The two terms are commonly used as synonyms, but there is a distinction between jiajiezi being a phonetic loan character for a word that did not originally have a character, such as using 東 ('a bag tied at both ends') for dōng ('east'), and tongjia being an interchangeable character used for an existing homophonous character, such as using ...