Basic Chinese Character Sets

(Note: This page contains Traditional Chinese translations of English text.)

As Chinese speakers and learners know, Chinese has a humongous number of characters, but only a subset of them are used frequently. Therefore various organizations or font foundries try to define a plane of characters fonts should choose to support depending on the use-case.

The following list shows some of these planes, and other ones I collected from sources.

JustFont 7000

Author: justfont
Source: Introductory article by justfont

Justfont (styled as “justfont”) is a Taiwan font foundry and typography education group. This is a basic 7000-character plane they released, along with “plugin packs” to cater different needs.

File link:

Moedict Characters with Definitions

Author: Me (ltlnx)
Source: Excerpted from Moedict (Github)
Character count: 9909

Moedict is a FOSS online dictionary, with sources derived from the Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary (zh-TW). These characters are extracted from Moedict’s source JSON files.

File link: moedict-chars.txt (TXT, 35.3KiB)

Additional Moedict Characters

Author: Me (ltlnx)
Source: Excerpted from Moedict (Github)
Character count: 550

File link: moedict-additional-chars.txt (TXT, 1.7KiB)

Common Mandarin Chinese Characters

Author: Ministry of Education, ROC (Taiwan)
Source: Original PDF, Adapted text file by ButTaiwan
Character count: 4808

The common character set and glyph regulations released by the Ministry of Education, ROC. Published in June 1979. Contains 4808 characters.

File link: edu_standard_1.txt

Secondary Mandarin Chinese Characters

Author: Ministry of Education, ROC (Taiwan)
Source: Original index site, Adapted text file by ButTaiwan
Character count: 6343

The secondary character set released by the Ministry of Education, ROC. Published in 1982, revised in 1993. This revision contains 6343 characters.

File link: edu_standard_2.txt

Last updated: 2023-11-30

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