List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese explained

The List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese is a list of 7,000 commonly used Chinese characters in Chinese. It was created in 1988 in the People's Republic of China.^[1]

In 2013, the List of Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters has replaced the List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese as the standard for Chinese characters in the People's Republic of China.^[2]

External links

• Alternative lists of common Chinese characters at Learnchineseok.com
• Frequency list
• CJK-CODE

Notes and References

1. http://www.moe.edu.cn/publicfiles/business/htmlfiles/moe/s230/201001/75616.html 现代汉语通用字表
2. Web site: zh:国务院关于公布《通用规范汉字表》的通知 . http://www.gov.cn/zwgk/2013-08/19/content_2469793.htm . . Gov.cn . 4 September 2014 . zh . 19 August 2013 . 12 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201012095526/http://www.gov.cn/zwgk/2013-08/19/content_2469793.htm . live .