Examples of Language Dependent Characters
In each row of the following table, the same character is repeated in all five columns. However, each column is marked (via the HTML lang attribute) as being in a different language: Chinese (3 varieties: unmarked "Chinese", simplified characters, and traditional characters), Japanese, or Korean. The browser should select, for each character, a glyph (from a font) suitable to the specified language. (Besides actual character variation—look for differences in stroke order, number, or direction—the typefaces may also reflect different typographical styles, as with serif and non-serif alphabets.) This only works for fallback glyph selection if you have CJK fonts installed on your system and the font selected to display this article does not include glyphs for these characters. Note also that Unicode includes non-graphical language tag characters in the range U+E0000 – U+E007F for plain text language tagging.
| Code | Chinese (Generic) |
Simplified Chinese |
Traditional Chinese |
Japanese | Korean | English |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U+4E0E | 与 | 与 | 与 | 与 | 与 | "given" |
| U+4ECA | 今 | 今 | 今 | 今 | 今 | "now" |
| U+4EE4 | 令 | 令 | 令 | 令 | 令 | "allow" |
| U+514D | 免 | 免 | 免 | 免 | 免 | "spare" |
| U+5165 | 入 | 入 | 入 | 入 | 入 | "enter" |
| U+5168 | 全 | 全 | 全 | 全 | 全 | "total" |
| U+5177 | 具 | 具 | 具 | 具 | 具 | "write" |
| U+5203 | 刃 | 刃 | 刃 | 刃 | 刃 | "knife" |
| U+5316 | 化 | 化 | 化 | 化 | 化 | "change" |
| U+5340 | 區 | 區 | 區 | 區 | 區 | "area" |
| U+5916 | 外 | 外 | 外 | 外 | 外 | "outside" |
| U+60C5 | 情 | 情 | 情 | 情 | 情 | "feeling" |
| U+624D | 才 | 才 | 才 | 才 | 才 | "ability" |
| U+62B5 | 抵 | 抵 | 抵 | 抵 | 抵 | "resist" |
| U+6B21 | 次 | 次 | 次 | 次 | 次 | "follow" |
| U+6D77 | 海 | 海 | 海 | 海 | 海 | "sea" |
| U+6F22 | 漢 | 漢 | 漢 | 漢 | 漢 | "Han" |
| U+753B | 画 | 画 | 画 | 画 | 画 | "picture" |
| U+76F4 | 直 | 直 | 直 | 直 | 直 | "vertical" |
| U+771F | 真 | 真 | 真 | 真 | 真 | "authentic" |
| U+7A7A | 空 | 空 | 空 | 空 | 空 | "sky" |
| U+7D00 | 紀 | 紀 | 紀 | 紀 | 紀 | "century" |
| U+8349 | 草 | 草 | 草 | 草 | 草 | "grass" |
| U+89D2 | 角 | 角 | 角 | 角 | 角 | "horn" |
| U+8ACB | 請 | 請 | 請 | 請 | 請 | "ask" |
| U+9053 | 道 | 道 | 道 | 道 | 道 | "road" |
| U+96C7 | 雇 | 雇 | 雇 | 雇 | 雇 | "employ" |
| U+9913 | 餓 | 餓 | 餓 | 餓 | 餓 | "hunger" |
| U+9AA8 | 骨 | 骨 | 骨 | 骨 | 骨 | "bone" |
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