Table of General Standard Chinese Characters

The Table of General 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. Of the characters included, 3,500 are in Tier I and designated as frequently used characters; 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 Unicode, some characters in the Table of General Standard Chinese Characters are located outside of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

See also

• The Table of General Standard Chinese Characters with Mandarin readings
• Pinyin reading index for the Table of General Standard Chinese Characters
• Table of Comparison between Standard, Traditional and Variant Chinese Characters
• The First Series of Standardized Forms of Words with Non-standardized Variant Forms
• Jōyō kanji, a standardized list of Chinese characters used in Japanese (kanji) published by the Japanese Ministry of Education
• Basic Hanja for educational use, a standardized list of Chinese characters used in Korean (Hanja) published by the South Korean Ministry of Education

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. 18 June 2013. Retrieved 17 June 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. 5 June 2013. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
• "The New Table of General Standard Chinese Characters Issued" (Press release). School of Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University. 4 January 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014.

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