Office.Ĭhinese character encoding standards - Big 5, GB code, GB2312, GBK, Unicode :: Pinyin Joeĭictionaries at: Chinese-English Online Dictionary, Chinese Char. See Also: Chinese Language at Taiwan Govt. Mandarin is the de-facto standard spoken language. Primary language used in schools, government, and most business offices. Taiwanese and Hakka, spoken by 75 percent and 15 percent of the natives respectively. The major dialects spoken in Taiwan are Southern Fujianese or Cantonese is the main dialect of Guangdong Province, Hong Kong, and many Roughly two-thirds of the population, which is one of the reasons why Mandarin was chosen as the Dialects of the Mandarin group are spoken in three-quarters of the country by (even though they have evolved differently over time), pronunciations for the sameĬharacter is different for: Mandarin (pinyin), Cantonese, Taiwanese, Mandarin, Xiang, Gan, Hakka, Wu, Fujianese,Īnd Cantonese groups. Library of Congress adopted Pinyin in 1999.Īlthough the written languages started with basically the same characters In 1978 mainland China officially adopted Pinyin. It is based on the pronunciation of the Beijing dialect of Mandarin Chinese. Taiwanese (Hō-ló-oē) whose century-old Pe̍h-ōe-jī (POJ) was developed by Presbyterian missionaries in Taiwan in the 19th century, is similar to Wade-Giles. Was developed by Thomas Francis Wade, a British ambassador in China and Chinese scholar who was the first professor of Chinese at Cambridge University. There are several different translations of Chinese names to the roman alphabet (Romanization or Chinese Phonetic Alphabet). The Chinese characters are common to Chinese (where they are called hanzi), Japanese (where they are called kanji), and Korean (where they are called hanja).ĬJK compatibility, CJK Unified Ideographs, CJK Compatibility Ideographs, CJK compatibility Forms, CJK Miscellaneous Han unification is the process used by the authors of Unicode and the Universal Character Set to map multiple character sets of the CJK languages into a single set of unified characters. Some other forms are: pinyin romanization, or zhuyin symbols. Simplified characters are now used in China and Singapore.Ĭharacters are used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and most overseas communities. So only one the fonts below will display correctly at any time. Only one character set (plus English) can be used with a document, Select it from the View > Encoding/Character Set menu.
Note: The fonts below will not display correctly until you install the character set and In 1956 and in 1964 China simplified several thousand characters to make
Written Chinese can take several forms, similar to script/cursive or printing for western languages. Traditional Chinese Simplifed Chinese Written Chinese
In Microsoft Windows XP /pinyin/pinyin_XPfonts.htm SimSun*
* Note: The two digit code zh is from the ISO639-1 Specification, * UTF - Unicode uses "Han Radical-Sroke" for Chinese, Japanese, Korean languages. Viewing Chinese Character Sets in Netscape and Internet Explorer View Menu (Encoding or Character Sets) Or use character entity coding with the Unicode character number. View > Encoding/Character Set menu and have the Big5 character set installed. The character for "East" Encoded with "STYLE="font-family:MingLiU ", ™F, should appear as if you select Big 5/Traditional Chinese You have to select the character set from the menu bar View > Encoding/Character Set In this case and when there is no META tag in the header, (See below)Ĭhinese characters may also be activated by other tags such as HTML, P and FONT. This should work you have downloaded the character set and selected it in preferences. (you must select View > Source to see meta tags). These characters are activated automatically when the document header contains the following META tag: See an example page with the Traditional Chinese Big5 character set. The language and character set names will appear underĬharacter Set or Encoding in the View menu your browser even though the fonts have not been When they appear as special character sets you must have those fonts downloaded to Chinese Character Sets Technology Character Sets Chinese Character Sets Contact Chinese Character SetsĬhinese characters may appear on Web pages as images (gif or jpeg) or special character sets.