Table of General Standard Chinese Characters

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Table of General Standard Chinese Characters
Hanyu Pinyin
Tōngyòng Guīfàn Hànzì Biǎo

The Table of General Standard Chinese Characters (

People's Republic of China and promulgated in June 2013. Of the characters included, 3,500 are in Tier I and designated as frequently used characters, a reduction from the 7,000 in the earlier List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese; Tier II includes 3,000 characters that are designated as commonly used characters but less frequently used than those in Tier 1; Tier III includes characters commonly used as names and terminology. The list also offers a table of correspondences between 2,546 Simplified Chinese characters and 2,574 Traditional Chinese characters, along with other selected variant forms. This table replaced all previous related standard, and provides the authoritative list of characters and glyph shapes
for Simplified Chinese in China.

Non-BMP characters

In

Basic Multilingual Plane
(BMP).

See also

References

  • "通用规范汉字表" [Table of General Standard Chinese Characters] (PDF). Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. June 18, 2013. Retrieved June 17, 2014.
  • "国务院关于公布《通用规范汉字表》的通知" [State Council announcement of the Table of General Standard Chinese Characters]. Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China. June 5, 2013. Retrieved June 17, 2014.
  • "The New Table of General Standard Chinese Characters Issued" (Press release). School of Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University. January 4, 2014. Retrieved June 17, 2014.

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