Standard Form of National Characters

The Standard Form of National Characters or the Standard Typefaces for Chinese Characters[1] (Chinese: 國字標準字體; pinyin: Guózì Biāozhǔn Zìtǐ) is the standardized form of Chinese characters set by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

There are three lists of the Standard Form of National Characters, promulgated by Taiwan's Ministry of Education: Note: Viewing this section correctly requires certain standard typefaces to be installed and the browser to be configured to use them in appropriate contexts.

The Standard Form of National Characters tends to adopt orthodox variants for most of its characters, but it still adopts many common vulgar variants.

For example: Other vulgar variants which are extremely common in handwriting have been adopted.

For example: This standard tends to follow a rule of writing regular script where there should be no more than one of ㇏ (called 捺), long horizontal stroke, or hook to the right (e.g. ㇂ ㇃) in a character.