Stroke Order Standard of GB 13000.1 Character Set
Chinese standard for stroke-based sorting
Stroke Order Standard of GB 13000.1 Character Set, full name GB 13000.1 Character Set Chinese Character Stroke Order Standard (GF 3002-1999) (simplified Chinese: GB 13000.1字符集汉字笔顺规范; traditional Chinese: GB 13000.1字元集漢字筆順規範; pinyin: GB 13000.1 Zìfújí Hànzì Bǐshùn Guīfàn), is a Chinese national standard on the order of strokes in writing Chinese characters. It has stipulated the stroke orders of 20,902 CJK Unified Ideographs. This standard was promulgated by the State Language Commission on October 1, 1999 and implemented on January 1, 2000. It is applicable to Chinese character information processing, dictionary compilation, Chinese character teaching and research, etc.
The standard has been applied to the arrangement of Xinhua Zidian and Xiandai Hanyu Cidian.
GB 13000.1 character set
GB 13000.1 is a national standard character set of the People's Republic of China, equivalent to the international standard ISO/IEC 10646, that is, the unified Chinese character set for China, Japan and Korea in the Unicode 1.1 version, containing 20,902 Chinese characters, with a Unicode encoding range of 4E00~9FA5.
Related concepts
According to the official document, the relevant terms are defined as follows:
Stroke: The smallest unit of continued lines that constitutes the shape of a regular script Chinese character.
Stroke form: The shape of a stroke. There are five basic categories of stroke forms in the order of "㇐(horizontal), ㇑(vertical), ㇓(left stroke), ㇔(dot) and ㇕(fold)", represented by their serial numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 respectively.
Component: A unit of Chinese characters composed of strokes that has the function of assembling Chinese characters.
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