• The Japanese script reform is the attempt to correlate standard spoken Japanese with the written word, which began during the Meiji period. This issue...
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    State: The Reform of Written Japanese. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-00990-1. Unger, J. Marshall (1996). Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan: Reading...
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    The small seal script is an archaic script style of written Chinese. It developed within the state of Qin during the Eastern Zhou dynasty (771–256 BC)...
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    Cursive script (simplified Chinese: 草书; traditional Chinese: 草書; pinyin: cǎoshū; Japanese: 草書体, sōshotai; Korean: 초서, choseo; Vietnamese: thảo thư), often...
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    Kanji (redirect from Kanji script)
    Chinese script, used in the writing of Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still...
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  • Jōyō kanji (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja))
    Kyōiku kanji (List of kanji by school year) Jinmeiyō kanji Hyōgaiji Japanese script reform Kanji radicals Learning kanji The List of Commonly Used Standard...
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  • Tōyō kanji (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    鳴 鷄 塩 麗 麦 麻 黃 黑 默 点 党 鼓 鼻 斎 歯 齢 Japanese script reform Kuenburg, Max (1952). "Tôyô Kanji. The Story of Modern Japanese Characters". Monumenta Nipponica...
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  • The cursive script is the source of Japanese hiragana, as well as many modern simplified forms in Simplified Chinese characters and Japanese shinjitai....
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    have been made to reform the script, including the promotion of small seal script by the Qin dynasty (221–206 BCE). Clerical script, which had matured...
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    Korean words and grammatical morphemes as well as Chinese loanwords. The script, which was developed by Buddhist monks, made it possible to record Korean...
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    The regular script is the newest of the major Chinese script styles, emerging during the Three Kingdoms period c. 230 CE, and stylistically mature by the...
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    such as Japanese kanji, Korean hanja, Vietnamese chữ Hán and chữ Nôm, Zhuang sawndip, and Bai bowen. More divergent are the Tangut script, Khitan large...
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    Seal script or sigillary script (simplified Chinese: 篆书; traditional Chinese: 篆書; pinyin: Zhuànshū; lit. 'decorative engraving script') is a style of writing...
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  • romanization of Japanese is the use of Latin script to write the Japanese language. This method of writing is sometimes referred to in Japanese as rōmaji (ローマ字...
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  • platforms List of CJK fonts Chinese language and computers Japanese language and computers Japanese input methods Korean language and computers Vietnamese...
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  • Kana (redirect from Kana script)
    Kana (仮名, Japanese pronunciation: [kana]) are syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae. In current usage, kana most commonly refers...
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    Oracle bone script is the oldest attested form of written Chinese, dating to the late 2nd millennium BC. Inscriptions were made by carving characters into...
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    Hanja (redirect from Hanja script)
    Chinese characters used for writing Japanese (Japanese equivalent of Hanja) McCune–Reischauer Korean mixed script New Korean Orthography Revised Romanization...
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    Imperial University system reorganized. The longstanding issue of Japanese script reform, which had been planned for decades but continuously opposed by...
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    The clerical script (traditional Chinese: 隸書; simplified Chinese: 隶书; pinyin: lìshū), sometimes also chancery script, is a style of Chinese writing that...
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  • Ministry of Education (MEXT); kanji script reform; and establishment of a university in every prefecture. The reforms were directed by the Education Division...
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  • traditional Chinese: 女書; pinyin: Nǚshū; [ny˨˩˨ʂu˦]; 'women's script') is a syllabic script derived from Chinese characters that was used by ethnic Yao...
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    Sawndip (redirect from Old Zhuang script)
    domains, Sawndip is more often used than alphabetical scripts. Sawndip is also called old Zhuang script, usually used to distinguish it from the Latin-based...
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    Ming typefaces (redirect from Songti script)
    the Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. They are currently the most common style of type in print for Chinese and Japanese. For Japanese and Korean...
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  • Kyūjitai (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    Kyūjitai (Japanese: 舊字體 / 旧字体, lit. 'old character forms') are the traditional forms of kanji (Chinese written characters used in Japanese writing). Their...
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  • Shinjitai (category CS1 uses Japanese-language script (ja))
    Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kanji - Japanese Simplifications The 20th Century Japanese Writing System: Reform and Change by Christopher Seeley A simple...
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  • (Taiwan, 1982) Jōyō kanji (Japan, 2010) Reforms Simplified characters second round Traditional characters debate Japanese script reform kyūjitai Homographs and...
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  • Fangsong (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja))
    script of Ouyang Xun Sichuan, where publications imitated the regular script of Yan Zhenqing Fujian, where publications imitated the regular script of...
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  • List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
    (Taiwan, 1982) Jōyō kanji (Japan, 2010) Reforms Simplified characters second round Traditional characters debate Japanese script reform kyūjitai Homographs and...
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    The hyangchal writing system is often classified as a subgroup of the Idu script. The first mention of hyangchal is the monk Kyun Ye's biography during the...
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