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GB/Z 40637-2021Standard glyph list of generally used Chinese characters for ancient books publishing (English PDF)

古籍印刷通用字规范字形表

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Issued by

State Administration for Market Regulation; Standardization Administration of China

Level / Type

National · Recommended

Issue date

October 11, 2021

Implementation date

October 11, 2021

Scope

GB/Z 40637-2021 is the English-translated version of 古籍印刷通用字规范字形表.

GB/Z 40637-2021 is the Chinese standard "Standard glyph list of generally used Chinese characters for ancient books publishing". Its scope clause reads: This document stipulates the principle of universal character collection in ancient book printing and the principle of computer Song Ti font standard, and gives 14,250 ancient Chinese characters.

The glyph, phoneme and code points in the international coded character set ISO /IEC 10646 of printed common characters. This document is suitable for the printing and publication of ancient books handed down from generations to generations before 1911, as well as for the traditional printing of modern books and periodicals. Its clauses include terms and definitions.

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National Standard of the People's Republic of China

ICS: 01.140.10
Classification: A22

Issued by: State Administration for Market Regulation; Standardization Administration of China

Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Principles of Collecting Common Characters in Ancient Books Printing
5 Principles for the standardization of common fonts in ancient book printing
6 Glyph table of common characters in ancient book printing

1 Scope

This document stipulates the principle of universal character collection in ancient book printing and the principle of computer Song Ti font standard, and gives 14,250 ancient Chinese characters.

The glyph, phoneme and code points in the international coded character set ISO /IEC 10646 of printed common characters.

This document is suitable for the printing and publication of ancient books handed down from generations to generations before 1911, as well as for the traditional printing of modern books and periodicals.

2 Normative references

The content of the following documents constitutes an indispensable clause of this document through normative references in the text. Among them, dated quotations

Only the version corresponding to the date is applicable to this document; for undated reference documents, the latest version (including all amendments) is applicable to

This document.

ISO /IEC 10646 Information Technology Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) [Informationtechnology-Universalcoded characterset(UCS)]

3 Terms and definitions

The following terms and definitions apply to this document.

3.1 Ancientbooks

Books written in classical or vernacular by the ancients.

3.2 Generalized characters

In contrast to "rarely used characters", Chinese characters with higher frequency and versatility are used based on the statistics of big data corpus.

3.3 Inherited characters

Modern Chinese characters have been passed down from ancient times.

3.4 Charactersofvariantwriting

Under the same form, the same word is recorded, the structure and meaning are the same, but the characters are written in different ways.

3.5 Charactersofvariantforms

Words that have the same sound and meaning, the same usage, only different shapes and structures, and can be used interchangeably in any environment.

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Referenced standards

Normative references

IEC 10646

Similar standards

GB 12982-2004|GB 16689-2004|GB 16690-2008|GB 17654-1999|GB 17655-2008

Editions of GB/Z 40637

Edition	Title	Revision	Status
GB/Z 40637-2021	Standard glyph list of generally used Chinese characters for ancient books publishing	current edition	Current

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