Handbook of Common Running Script for Quick Reference: Four-Corner Code

Author: Fan Zhongyue
Editor-in-Chief: Liu Ming
Publisher:
Publish Date: 1999-12-04
Features:
1. The 3,500 characters collected in this manual are based on the "Common Characters List of Modern Chinese" jointly released by the National Language Work Committee and the Ministry of Education in March 1988.
2. The four-corner number system used is based on the "New Four-Corner Number Dictionary" (Ninth Revised and Reprinted Edition) published by the Commercial Press in 1985.
3. The forms of characters used in this manual are based on the "Simplified Character Headquarters," the "List for the Rectification of Variant Characters," and the "General Printable Chinese Character Form List." The head character is the simplified form, followed by traditional characters in brackets [] for ease of recognition and lookup.
4. The phonetic annotations for characters are selected from the "phonetic annotations in the New Four-Corner Number Dictionary." The phonetic index is based on these annotations.
5. The cursive scripts used in this manual are all sourced. The selected characters emphasize the style of the Jin Dynasty scholars known as the "Liu Yi" school. For the sake of helping readers understand the cursive script of simplified characters, most simplified characters are presented in their simplified forms.
6. For characters with multiple pronunciations, meanings, or forms, only one form is selected. Please use with caution.
7. To facilitate character lookup, an "Alphabetical Phonetic Index" and a "Stroke and Number Index" are compiled at the end of the main text.