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Chapter 2: Writing Systems and Scripts

Traditional and simplied ideographsTable 2-38.

Traditional Simplied—Japan Simplied—China

  

  

Both the simplied and traditional forms of ideographs sometimes coexist within the same

character set standard, and some of the pairs from Table 2-38 are such examples—most

of them are part of the basic Japanese character set standard, specically JIS X 0208:1997.

You can also see that some simplications are more extreme than others.

Such simplications in Japan have led to variants of many characters, and in some char-

acter sets both the simplied and traditional forms are included (the examples given ear-

lier are such cases). As an extreme example, let’s examine the JIS X 0208:1997 kanji 

(Row-Cell 23-85), whose ve variant kanji are also encoded within the same character set

standard. ese variants are listed in Table 2-39 (JIS X 0208:1997 Row-Cell and Unicode

scalar values are given).

Ideograph variants in the same character setTable 2-39.

Ideograph Character code—JIS X 0208:1997 Character code—Unicode



49-88 528



49-89 5294



49-9 5292



49-91 5271

󰈽

78-63 91

I should also point out that almost all simplied ideographs have a corresponding tradi-

tional form. Some so-called simplied ideographs have been coined as simplied forms,

meaning that although they are considered simplied ideographs, there is no correspond-

ing traditional ...