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  2. List of Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese

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    The List of Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese (simplified Chinese: 现代汉语常用字表; traditional Chinese: 現代漢語常用字表; pinyin: Xiàndài Hànyǔ Chángyòngzì Biǎo) is a list of 3,500 frequently-used Chinese characters, which are further divided into two levels: 2,500 frequently-used characters and 1,000 less frequently-used characters.

  3. List of Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters - Wikipedia

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    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 standards, and provides the authoritative list of characters and glyph shapes for Simplified Chinese in China.

  4. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Such scripts often work best as mnemonic aids for oral texts or as outlines that will be fleshed out in speech. Adinkra; Aztec script – Nahuatl (includes syllabic and logographic elements) Birch-bark glyphs – Anishinaabemowin; Chinese character (some Chinese characters are ideogram, for example: 一二三 (one, two, three))

  5. Table of Comparison between Standard, Traditional and Variant ...

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    Comparing with the previous standards, the changes of the Table of Comparison between Standard, Traditional and Variant Chinese Characters include . In addition to the characters from the General List of Simplified Chinese Characters and the List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese, 226 groups of characters such as "髫, 𬬭, 𫖯" that are widely used in the society are included in ...

  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. Written Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Characters and components may reflect aspects of meaning or pronunciation. The best known exposition of Chinese character composition is the Shuowen Jiezi, compiled by Xu Shen c. 100 CE. Xu did not have access to the earliest forms of Chinese characters, and his analysis is not considered to fully capture the nature of the writing system. [14]

  8. General List of Simplified Chinese Characters - Wikipedia

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    On 7 January 1964, the Chinese Character Reform Committee submitted a "Request for Instructions on the Simplification of Chinese Characters" to the State Council, mentioning that "due to the lack of clarity on analogy simplification in the original Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (汉字简化方案), there is some disagreement and confusion in the application field of publication”.

  9. Modern Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    Strokes (traditional Chinese: 筆劃; simplified Chinese: 笔画; pinyin: bǐhuà) are the smallest writing units of Chinese characters. When writing a Chinese character, the trace of a dot or a line left on the writing material (such as paper) from pen-down to pen-up is called a stroke. [42]