Variant Chinese characters
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Chinese characters may have several variant forms—visually distinct glyphs that represent the same underlying meaning and pronunciation. Variants of a given character are allographs of one another, and many are directly analogous to allographs present in the English alphabet, such as the double-storey ⟨a⟩ and single-storey ⟨ɑ⟩ variants of the letter A, with the latter more commonly appearing in handwriting. Some contexts require usage of specific variants.
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Variant character | |||||||||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 異體字 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 异体字 | ||||||||||||
Literal meaning | variant character form | ||||||||||||
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Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 又體 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 又体 | ||||||||||||
Literal meaning | alternative form | ||||||||||||
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Second alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 或體 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 或体 | ||||||||||||
Literal meaning | or form | ||||||||||||
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Third alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||||
Chinese | 重文 | ||||||||||||
Literal meaning | alternative writing | ||||||||||||
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Vietnamese name | |||||||||||||
Vietnamese alphabet | chữ dị thể | ||||||||||||
Hán-Nôm | 𡨸異體 | ||||||||||||
Korean name | |||||||||||||
Hangul | 이체자 | ||||||||||||
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Japanese name | |||||||||||||
Kanji | 異体字 | ||||||||||||
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