Contents

• Introduction
• 214 KangXi Radicals
• Variants
• Ways to Simplification
• Simplified Characters Not Used As Components
• Simplified Components Used in other Characters
• Simplified Characters from Simplified Components
• Characters with Simplified Radicals
• Problems with Simplification
• Singapore's Obsolete Simplified Hanzi
• Japanese Simplifications
• Books and References

Nota Bene

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© (c) Copyright Dylan W.H. Sung 2001

This page was created on Sunday 11th February 2001
and last updated on Tuesday 6th March 2001.