Chinese Character Simplification Scheme

Chinese Character Simplification Scheme
Original title	漢字簡化方案
Presented	7 January 1955
Ratified	31 January 1956
Date effective	1 February 1956
Superseded	May 1964, by the General List of Simplified Chinese Characters
Commissioned by	State Council of the People's Republic of China
Author(s)	Language Reform Research Committee of China
Purpose	Chinese character simplification
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Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	漢字簡化方案
Simplified Chinese	汉字简化方案
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Hànzì jiǎnhuà fāng'àn

Chinese characters
Chinese family of scripts Written Chinese Kanji Hanja Chữ Hán
Evolution of script styles Neolithic symbols in China Oracle bone Bronze Seal Large Small Bird-worm Clerical Cursive Semi-cursive Regular Flat brush Modern typefaces Fangsong Ming Hei
Properties and classification Components Strokes order Radicals Orthography jiu zixing xin zixing Digital encoding
Collation and standards Kangxi Dictionary forms (1716) Commonly Used Characters (PRC, 2013) Commonly-Used Characters (Hong Kong, 2007) Nan Min Recommended Characters (Taiwan, 2009) Standard Form of National Characters (Taiwan, 1982) Jōyō kanji (Japan, 2010)
Reforms Simplified characters second round Traditional characters debate Japanese script reform kyūjitai
Homographs and readings Literary and colloquial readings Kanbun Idu
Variants Zetian characters
Derived systems Kana man'yōgana hiragana katakana Jurchen script Khitan large small Nüshu Bopomofo Slavonic transcription
Transliteration of Chinese
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The Chinese Character Simplification Scheme is a list of simplified Chinese characters promulgated in 1956 by the State Council of the People's Republic of China. It contains the vast majority of simplified characters in use today. To distinguish it from the second round of simplified Chinese characters published in 1977, the 1956 list is also known as the First Chinese Character Simplification Scheme.