Table of General Standard Chinese Characters

Table of General Standard Chinese Characters
Simplified Chinese	通用规范汉字表
Traditional Chinese	通用規範漢字表
Literal meaning	General Use Standardized Chinese Character Table
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Tōngyòng Guīfàn Hànzì Biǎo

The Table of General Standard Chinese Characters (Chinese: 通用规范汉字表; pinyin: Tōngyòng Guīfàn Hànzì Biǎo) 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, 6,500 are designated as common, a reduction from the 7,000 in the earlier List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese; 3,500 are designated as frequent, as in the List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese. The list also offers an official table of correspondences between Simplified Chinese characters and Traditional Chinese characters (designating both 'standard' and selected 'variant' forms), effectively serving as Mainland China's standardization scheme for Traditional Characters.

See also

• The Table of General Standard Chinese Characters with Mandarin readings
• Pinyin reading index for the Table of General Standard Chinese Characters
• The First Series of Standardized Forms of Words with Non-standardized Variant Forms

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.