Chinese
Simplified Characters introduced in August 1935 and retracted in February 1936.
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Unicode Chart 
Maps
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Data
| Alternate Names | Standard Mandarin Chinese, Hanzi, |
|---|---|
| ISO 15924 | Hani 500, Hans 501, Hant 502, Hanb 503 |
| Type | Morphosyllabic |
| Family | Hanzi |
| Direction | TtB, RtL LtR (from 1959-present) |
| Diacritics | Yes |
| Contextual Forms | No |
| Capitals Used | No |
| Glyphs | 6000 |
| Inventor | (Xŭ Shèn) 許慎 |
| Earliest Location | China |
| Earliest Date | 10 BCE |
| Latest Date | Present |
| Ancestry |
Bibliography
| Author | Year | Publication | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mair, Victor | 1996 | The World's Writing Systems, Modern Chinese Writing, 200-207 | Oxford University Press |
| Rogers, Henry | 2005 | Writing Systems: A Linguistic Approach, Chinese, 20-46 | Blackwell |
| Smith, Janet S. (Shibamoto) | 1996 | The World's Writing Systems, Section 16: Japanese Writing, 210-213 | Oxford University Press |