Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants

This is a great site with an astronomical amount of work poured in regarding Chinese characters in all their shapes both in standard and variant forms. The appendix includes most authoritative Chinese dictionaries of the past 1,885 yrs of epigraphic/etymological/lexicographical studies. Navigation is a bit confusing due to the huge amount and complexity of information, but the work is vastly rewarding. Great to share with everyone !
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Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants
中華民� 教育部� 語推行委員會　編輯
Mandarin Promotion Council, Ministry of Education, R.O.C

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The Ministry of Education appointed the Department of Chinese, National Taiwan Normal University to make a table of Chinese character variants. This table has been published for many years, and widely used by all circles. However, people have pointed out that it does not show the origins of characters and some handwritten characters are not clear. In order to meet the demands of Mandarin teaching and inner code increasing of the Chinese language information, we need to assort and enlarge the table again and expand the reference usages of each word. So on one hand, it can be a reference resource for Mandarin teaching in our country; on the other hand, it can be encoded by the Institute For Information Industry as the standard interchange codes and then registered in ISO. In this way, we will not miss playing a role while Mainland China, Korea, and Japan are in keen competition enlarging the set of internationally used Chinese characters.

In Sep, 1994, Professor Chen Hsin-hsiung of the Department of Chinese, National Taiwan Normal University was invited to attend “the International Conference of Daily Chinese Characters in Asian Chinese Character Culture” sponsored by International Chinese Character Revival Association. As the simplified characters of Communist China are not in accord with the traditional Chinese characters, all the participants in the conference are requested to discuss and establish the common character forms on the basis of currently used characters, and then to have them standardized and unified so that it easy for people to communicate and exchange information. Therefore, Professor Chen suggested our ministry to compile a dictionary of Chinese character variants. As it is necessary to have Chinese characters standardized and unified, the Mandarin Promotion Council (MPC), Ministry of Education) is responsible for this. In the 84th meeting of the standing council on Feb. 21, 1995, the plan of compiling a dictionary of character variants was proposed and approved. It would take six years (from July, 1 1995 to June 30 2000) to sort character books and documents and establish a character file. Accordingly, we will revise the table of Chinese character variants we have had and compile a brand-new dictionary of Chinese character variants.

The dictionary has been finished on June, 2001, and total contains over 100,000 character variants.

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Dictionaries quoted as images or text:

1. 說文解字（大徐本）
2. 說文解字（段注本）
3. 金文編
4. 古文字類編
5. 漢語古文字字形表
6. 漢簡文字類篇
7. 古璽文編
8. 漢隸字源
9. 隸辨
10. 金石文字辨異
11. 偏類碑別字
12. 碑別字新編
13. 敦煌俗字譜
14. 五經文字
15. 龍龕手鏡（高麗本）
16. 龍龕手鑑
17. 玉篇
18. 廣韻
19. 集韻
20. 集韻考正
21. 類篇
22. 四聲篇海（明刊本）
23. 六書正
24. 宋元以來俗字譜
25. 俗書刊誤
26. 字學三正
27. 字彙
28. 正字通
30. 字彙補
31. 康熙字典（校正本）
32. 經典文字辨證書
33. �撩A字學舉隅
34. 古今正俗字詁
35. 字辨
36. 彙音寶鑑
37. 異體字手冊
38. 大陸簡化字表
39. 角川漢和辭典
40. 韓� 基礎漢字表
41. 中日朝漢字字形對照
42. 中文大辭典
43. 漢語大字典
44. 中� 書法大字典
45. 草書大字典
46. 學生簡體字字典
47. 佛教難字字典
48. 中華字海
49. 古文四聲韻
50. 書法字彙
51. 重訂直音篇
52. 補充資料

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