Variant Chinese Character

Variant Chinese Character

Variant Chinese characters (simplified Chinese: 异体字; traditional Chinese: 異體字; pinyin: yìtǐzì; Japanese: 異体字; hepburn: itaiji) are Chinese characters that are homophones and synonyms. Almost all variants are allographs in most circumstances, such as casual handwriting. Some contexts require the usage of certain variants, such as in textbook editing.

Read more about Variant Chinese Character:  Regional Standards, Orthodox and Vulgar Variants, Usage in Computing, Graphemic Variants

Famous quotes containing the words variant and/or character:

    ““I am willing to die for my country” is a variant of “I am willing to kill for my country.””
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!”
    —Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936)