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  2. Simplified Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    Simplified Chinese characters are one of two standardized character sets widely used to write the Chinese language, with the other being traditional characters.Their mass standardization during the 20th century was part of an initiative by the People's Republic of China (PRC) to promote literacy, and their use in ordinary circumstances on the mainland has been encouraged by the Chinese ...

  3. Chinese Character Simplification Scheme - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese Character Simplification Scheme is a list of simplified Chinese characters promulgated in 1956 by the State Council of the People's Republic of China. It contains the vast majority of simplified characters in use today.

  4. General List of Simplified Chinese Characters - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese Character Reform Committee made many revisions, but never satisfactory. [5] On 25 February 1986, the State Language Commission submitted to the State Council the "Request for Instructions on Abolition of the 'Second Chinese Character Simplification Plan (Draft)' and Correcting the Confusion of Chinese Characters in Society". In June ...

  5. List of Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters - Wikipedia

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    This table integrates the First Batch of Simplified Characters (1955), the Complete List of Simplified Characters (initially published in 1964, last revised in 1986), and the List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese (1988), while also refining and improving it based on the current usage of characters in mainland China. After 8 years ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Modern Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    The first GB Chinese character encoding standard is GB2312, which was released by the PRC in 1980. It includes 6,763 Chinese characters, with 3,755 frequently-used ones sorted by Pinyin, and the rest by radicals (indexing components). GB2312 was designed for simplified Chinese characters. Traditional characters which have been simplified are ...

  9. List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese

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    The List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese (simplified Chinese: 现代汉语通用字表; traditional Chinese: 現代漢語通用字表; pinyin: Xiàndài Hànyǔ Tōngyòngzì Biǎo) is a list of 7,000 commonly used Chinese characters in Chinese. It was created in 1988 in the People's Republic of China. [1]