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Introduction

kVariants.txt is a tab separated file of CJK ideographs variants. Information was collected by looking up dictionary sources such as Kangxi Zidian, Hanyu Dazidian, and other sources quoted by the MOE Dictionary.

Format

The file is split into three columns:

  1. Source Ideograph
  2. Classification
  3. Destination Ideograph

There are five classifications, wrong!, sem, simp, old and =.

  • wrong!
    Variants which are identified by their source dictionaries as incorrect forms of the destination character. Some dictionaries may refer to common systematic variants as errorenous forms; those variants are grouped into the sem classification.

  • sem
    Includes semantic variants which one of the following:

    • systematic corruptions or variations of another character
    • characters with non-unifiable structural differences, such as stretching of top 艹
    • strict per-component transliterations of characters where the conventional   transliteration is a single fused component
    • characters with alternate positional forms (艸 vs 艹)

  • simp
    The source ideograph is a simplified variant of the destination ideograph. Simplification may be an official simplification defined by the 《簡化字總表》, official and unofficial derived simplifications, or otherwise simplier forms in popular handwritten use. Characters which are used as both Simplified and Traditional forms are excluded.

  • old
    Alternative shape-based transliterations of older scripts used by Han, such as Small Seal, "guwen 古文", etc. Variants covered by the sem classification
    are excluded.

  • =
    Z-variants of existing characters, where they are unifiable and/or not readily distinguished by users of the Han script.

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