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A character with only one meaning is a monosemous character, and a character with two or more meanings is a polysemous character. According to statistics from the Chinese Character Information Dictionary , among the 7,785 mainland standard Chinese characters in the dictionary, there are 4,139 monosemous characters, 3,053 polysemous characters ...
The Chinese character outline contains 2,905 characters, divided into four grades: 800 Grade A characters, 804 Grade B characters, 601 Grade C characters, and 700 Grade D characters. Among these 2,905 characters, 2,485 are first-level frequently-used characters in the "现代汉语常用字表" (List of Frequently Used Modern Chinese Characters ...
A list of all jōyō kanji according to Halpern's KKLD indexing system, with the kyōiku kanji coloured according to grade level. 1946 created with 881 characters [1] 1977 expanded to 996 characters [1] 1989 expanded to 1,006 characters [1] 2017 expanded to 1,026 characters [1] The following 20 characters, all used in prefecture names, [3] were ...
no use of character q, w, x, or y except for foreign brand names, international symbols, some loanwords (e.g. queer), and, in the case of w, older texts. no longer uses ō or ŗ in modern language extremely rare doubling of vowels
Chinese characters may have several variant forms—visually distinct glyphs that represent the same underlying meaning and pronunciation. Variants of a given character are allographs of one another, and many are directly analogous to allographs present in the English alphabet, such as the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ variants of the letter A, with the latter more commonly appearing in ...
Sometimes literary and colloquial readings of the same character have different meanings. An analogous phenomenon exists to a much more significant degree in Japanese , where individual kanji generally have two common readings—the newer borrowed, more formal Sino-Japanese on'yomi , and the older native, more colloquial kun'yomi .
If the component is not a character, then if it has a name, then use the existing name. For example, 扌 (tí shǒu, 提手) and 宀 (bǎo gài, 宝盖). If the component has more than one name, then use the name commonly used, for example, 彳 is rather called shuāng lì rén (双立人) than shuāngrén páng (双人旁).