The Unicode Standard details the principles of Han unification. The Ideographic Research Group (IRG), made up of … See more

In each row of the following table, the same character is repeated in all six columns. However, each column is marked (by the lang attribute) as being in a different language: Chinese (simplified and two types of … See more

In some cases, often where the changes are the most striking, Unicode has encoded variant characters, making it unnecessary to switch between fonts or lang attributes. However, some variants with arguably minimal diff… See more

In order to resolve issues brought by Han unification, a Unicode Technical Standard known as the Unicode Ideographic Variation Database have been created to resolve the problem of specifying specific glyph in pla… See more

Ideographic characters assigned by Unicode appear in the following blocks:
• CJK Unified Ideographs (4E00–9FFF) (Otherwise known as URO, abbreviation of Unified Repertoire and Ordering)
• CJK Unified Ide… See more

The Unihan project has always made an effort to make available their build database.
The libUnihan project provides a normalized SQLite Unihan database and correspond… See more

• GB 18030 – Official Chinese character encoding
• Sinicization – Assimilation into Han Chinese culture
• Z-variant – Glyphs with minor typographical differences… See more