Updated Sun 15 Oct 2017 • tags ideographic, chinese, scriptnotes
This page provides information about the characteristics of the simplified script used to write Chinese, as described in the Writing Systems Tutorial. It is not intended to be exhaustively scientific – merely to give a basic idea of the essential features of the script. Number of characters is based on the simplest list of exemplarCharacters in CLDR.
Click on the orange text in the table to the right to see more details about that aspect of the script. Click on red text in the main sample area to see a list of code points for that text.
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Script name | Han |
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Script type | ideographic |
Number of characters (CLDR) | 2137 |
Case distinction | no |
Combining characters | 0 |
Multiple combining characters | no |
Context-based positioning | no |
Contextual shaping | no |
Cursive script | no |
Many more glyphs than characters? | no |
Text direction | ltr / tb-rl |
Baseline | low |
Space is word separator | no |
Wraps at | character |
Justification | inter-character |
Native digits? | yes |
Special features | complex glyphs |
Click on the orange text in the features list (right column) to see examples and notes. Click on highlighted text in the Sample section to see the characters. Click on the vertical blue bar, bottom right, to change font settings.
Chinese can be set both horizontally and vertically. Horizontal lines are read left-to-right. Vertical lines are read top-to-bottom, and progress from right to left across the page.
If your browser supports vertical text, you can change the direction of the sample above using this control:
Chinese rarely uses spaces. In the sample text there are gaps around punctuation, but these are produced by a lack of 'ink' in parts of the square character glyphs:
You can verify this by clicking on the highlighted text. You'll see only three characters make up this sequence, and none are spaces.
Lines are normally wrapped between characters – word boundaries have no significance for the wrapping. Chinese should, however, take into account a few rules which dictate what characters cannot appear at the end or start of a line.
For example, if your browser supports Chinese wrapping correctly, and if you vary the width of the browser window, it should be impossible to get the chinese comma in the highlighted example to appear at the beginning of a line. (Hint: increase the font size to 72px to make this easier.)
Chinese justifies text using a complex set of rules which adjust the space between characters on a line. Some characters are adjusted before others.
To see how your browser justifies Chinese text, use this control:
This is the lists of characters (exemplarCharacters) used by Simplified Chinese according to CLDR. There are many thousands more characters that can be used in Chinese. Click on the Punctuation subsection title to see detailed information about the characters.
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