CJKV Information Processing, 2nd Edition

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In addition, the Chinese government published a document entitled Simplied Charac-

ter Table ( jinhuàzì zngbio) that enumerates 2,249 simplied hanzi (and

illustrates the traditional forms from which they were derived—some simplied hanzi

were derived from more than one traditional hanzi). is document is divided into three

tables, the descriptions of which are listed in Table 3-1.

Simplied character table contentsTable 3-1.

Table Characters Description

1 350 Independently simplied hanzi

2 146 Simplied components used in other hanzi

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3 1,753 Hanzi simplied by using simplied components from “Table 2” of the Simplied Character Table

Among these, 132 are also used as standalone hanzi.a.

ere has been more than one version of this document, the most recent of which was

published in 1986. It is important to note that its development has not been static. Some

minor corrections and adjustments have been made over the years, one of which is known

to have caused an error in a coded character set, specically in GB/T 12345-90 (to be cov-

ered later in this chapter). As you will learn in this chapter, the propagation of errors from

one character set to another—whether coded, noncoded, or both—is something that can

and does occur.

Be aware that there are many hanzi used in China that do not require further simplica-

tion—only those that were deemed frequently used ...