This page is to serve as the definition for the New Simplified character form (新簡体・Shinkantai・신간체/Singanche・Tân Giản-Thể) developed by cang-jie.

Motivation

As a learner of Chinese characters (Kanji), I was deeply saddened to find the four great nations of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam to possess differing standards relating to writing in this beautiful system. Indeed, inasmuch as the Chinese (both PRC and ROC) have regressed to sloppy cursive writing with which to sully the printed form, the Japanese prove to be no better with their arbitrary adding or removing of strokes to repudiate a Kanji's longstanding etymological soundness.

The standard which Kangxi bequoth us all those centuries ago contains exemplary masterworks of characters—yet masterworks are all they can come out to be. Kanji must be simplified somehow, yet not to the extremities of those on the Chinese mainland or the thoughtless clutter of Shinjitai. To this end I propose the NEW SIMPLIFIED CHINESE CHARACTERS. Its purpose is twofold: to reduce optical complexity on screen and on paper, while keeping to the typographical traditions of Kangxi's printed form. This is to be a multilingual standard, able to write Kanji from the four linguistic spectrums of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. A short breakdown of the specific Kanji used is as follows (out of a sample size of 10000 characters):

• Traditional Chinese: 75%
• PRC Simplified Chinese: 20%
• Shinjitai (excl. PRC Simplified): 4%
• ROC Simplified Chinese: <1%
• Other Variant Characters: <1%

I humbly endeavor to reform the thousands of Kanji to be as concise, yet clear in meaning, as they can possibly be—a new Orthodoxy to be followed for centuries to come.

Table of Standard Forms

Reforms apply to:

• all X-variants (characters with different meaning).
• all Y-variants (characters with same meaning and different shapes) except as indicated below. Such exceptions should always use the Kangxi form of glyphs, or at least as close to that effect as GlyphWiki can provide.
• some Z-variants (characters with same meaning and same shapes), only if the variance can be established on a single component in question. For example, 卷 and 巻 decompose as ⿱龹㔾 and ⿱龹己 respectively, yet both 龹 are written in the Standard Form as the z-variance in question concerns only the bottom component 㔾/己. 曾 and 曽, on the other hand, differ in two components, 八/丷 and 𭥴/𭥫; the latter character form should not change. 說, as contrasted with 説, also does not change, as the nonconforming component 八/丷 forms the entire basis of the variance in the first place.

Component Character	Standard Forms	Nonstandard Forms	Comment
䍃	u4343-var-002	u4343 u4343-var-001	Simplified Chinese form retains the semantic component.
专	u4e13-var-001 cang-jie_u4e13-x08	u4e13 u4e13-08	By Kangxi standard, we must allow vertical facing strokes to jut out beyond the horizontal.
业	u4e1a	u3400-itaiji-001	Simplified Chinese and Shinjitai simplification
主	u4e3b	dkw-00100	Kangxi form
乀※1	u4e40-var-001	u4e40	Removal of fudeosae, in line with Simplified Chinese and Shinjitai standards. Does not apply to certain obscure or variant characters, in which case see below.
乐	u4e50-var-006	u4e50	Imitation of Kangxi form preserving 木 component
乖	u4e56-g	u4e56	Simplified Chinese form, with shortened side components, which I feel better emulates the Kangxi form.
俞	u4fde	u516a	Chinese and Japanese simplification
備	u5099-k	u5099	Kangxi form
免	u514d-k	u514d	Kangxi form
兑	u5151	u514c	Simplified following Simplified Chinese and Shinjitai. It is an exception to the 八 standard form below.
全	u5168	u5168-k	From Simplified Chinese and Shinjitai, can be explained as "man working on jade to make it whole again," whereas the connection with 入 is not as obvious.
八	u516b	u516b-g u4e37	Kangxi form
具	u5177-k	u5177	Kangxi form
兼	u517c-k u517c-02-var-001 u5ec9-k u5ec9-02-var-001 etc.	u517c u517c-02 u5ec9 etc.	Kangxi form. In essence, must preserve the 八 or ㇒㇒ roof, but does not need to disconnect the ㇒丨 strokes if that variant does not already exist.
内	u5185	u5167	From Simplified Chinese and Shinjitai, can be explained as "man entering the city outskirts" as indicated in the graphical depiction. Thus the more complex 入 is not necessary.
冒	u5192	u5192-k	SPECIAL CASE: NOT ANALOGIZABLE One of the few instances where the Japanese 字形 simplification actually makes sense. As this is considered to be a 假借 character, the original sense now represented with 帽, it no longer has anything to do with a "hat". We can indeed show the meaning more clearly through that the sun emits light onto the eyes.
刃	u5203-k	u5203	Kangxi form
勺	u52fa	u52fa-k	Chinese and Japanese simplification
包	u5305-k	u5305	Kangxi form
匸	simch-kx_t015435	u5338u531a	Kangxi form, a revival of the distinction that existed before the reforms of Chinese and Japanese. Obviously, a "structure" 匚 exists to "cover" 匸 the people inside, from which originates the confusion; but I believe that any semantic distinction made between radicals is valuable, even if only in the placement of strokes. Note that this may not appear in certain combining forms.
卑	u5351-k	u5351	Kangxi form
单	u5355	u5358	From Simplified Chinese, remove the clutter of the extra stroke
卝※2	u8279	u535d	Kangxi is quite vague on the usage of this character, often substituting it for the grass radical where there is no etymological basis (cf. 蒦, 蔑). Following the lead of Simplified Chinese, Shinjitai, and Korean I have decided to leave it in its Kangxi form for traditional characters, and simplify it otherwise.
蔑	u8511-v	u8511 u8511-ue0104	Remove Japanese modification from lower component
及	u53ca-k	u53ca	Kangxi form
吴	u5434	u5433 u5449	From Simplified Chinese, modified to make it symmetrical and easier to write.
告	u544a	u543f	Common simplification across all CJKV.
周	u5468	u5468-ue0100	Same as above.
唐	u5510-k	u5510	Kangxi form
壳	u58f3-g	u58f3	Simplified Chinese and Shinjitai simplification
害	u5bb3-ue0102	u5bb3	Kangxi form
尃	u5c03	u5c03-var-001	Kangxi form
将	u5c06-ufe00	u5c06 u5c06-g	SPECIAL CASE: NOT ANALOGIZABLE Modification to preserve the meat radical of the original 將.
小	u2e8c	u5c0f-09-var-002	Common simplification from Chinese and Shinjitai, as Kangxi already reduces any 八 components (eliminating the hook) in this form. The 半 component is the sole exception to this simplification, as its semantic 八 (divide) still has connection with the meaning of the character (half).
尔	u5c14 u5c14-02-var-001	u5c13 u5c14-02	Kangxi separates the top and bottom components, but I feel that connecting them in the Japanese and Korean style gives better continuity to the traditional 爾.
并	u5e76	u5e77	Chinese and Japanese simplification
开	u5f00	u5e75	Chinese and Japanese simplification
强	u5f3a-k	u5f37	From Simplified Chinese; the changed phonetic component bears a stronger resemblance to 彊, the original form of the character.
彐※3	u20b36-var-002 u5bfb-var-001 u96ea-k	u20b36 u5bfb u96ea	The pig's snout radical 彐 (bottom stroke longer) is distinguished from ヨ (middle stroke longer) hand and ヨ (vertical stroke longer) other unrelated character components. As a rule of thumb, u5f50 is left unchanged, while forms derived from pictograms are rendered as u5f50-g, and forms representing a "hand" radical are rendered as u5f50-ue0101. Some usages (such as 㥯) are unknown, and should always default to the Kangxi form, the absence of which will be treated as if it was pictographic.
彦	u5f66	u5f65	Simplified Chinese and Shinjitai simplification
往	u5f80-var-001	u5f80	Exception to 主 above, as this character rather uses 王 as a phonetic component instead. The dot above may be analyzed as a remnant of the semantic component 止.
戋	u620b	u39ae	From Simplified Chinese, remove the clutter of the extra stroke
戸	u6238	u6236 u6237	This Japanese form reinforces Kangxi's rectilinearity that we all know and love.
旡	u65e1 u65e1-02-var-001 u65e1-02-var-003	u65e1-k u65e1-02 etc.	Adopted as a measure of practicality. Most glyphs tend to use the form with 丨 touching the two ㇐ strokes. As a separate character, however, the Japanese form appears to be a closer match to the Kangxi form.
昷	u6637	u25055	Simplified Chinese and Shinjitai simplification
曷	u66f7	u66f7-var-002	Kangxi form
曾	u66fe	u66fd	Kangxi form
朋	u670b	u670b-ue0101	Kangxi form
服	u670d	u670d-ue0101	Common simplification across all CJKV.
朕	u6715	u6715-k u6715-ue0104	Chinese and Japanese simplification
朝	u671d	u671d-ue0101	Common simplification across all CJKV. 舟, a phonetic component, is replaced with 月, the original semantic component from the oracle bone script.
朮	u672e	u672f	Formerly simplified, but considering I have left 示 untouched, I shall treat this character in the same manner.
麻	u9ebb-k	u9ebb	Same as above.
查	u67e5	u67fb	Kangxi form
柬	u67ec	u6771	Kangxi form. Only applies where 柬 is used as a character component.
欠	u6b20-k u6b20-02-var-002	u6b20 u6b20-02	Adopted as a measure of practicality. Most glyphs tend to use the Korean form.
每	u6bcf	u6bce	Kangxi form
爪※4	u722b-g	u722b	Kangxi again becomes inconsistent with this radical in characters like 受. I will therefore simplify it following Simplified Chinese and Shinjitai.
牙	u7259	u7259-k	From Japanese. It is the closest of the modern standards to Kangxi form, yet the single change in stroke placement makes for a quite æsthetically pleasing result. When combining top to bottom, it is acceptable to use j90-3267 or the Korean form, whichever is the default.
皀※5	cdp-8b7c-01	u7680-08 u7680-08-var-001	Chinese and Japanese simplification
真	u771f	u771e	Japanese simplification
示	u793a-01	u793b-01	Kangxi form
者※6	u8005	u8005-k	Remove the clutter of the extra stroke
臽	u81fd-g	u81fd	Chinese simplification also reflected in Shinjitai, a standardization of ⺈ instead of 勹 to represent 人.
舍	u820d	u820e	Kangxi form
良	u826f-01-var-001	u826f-01	Chinese and Japanese simplification
长	u957f-var-007 cang-jie_u957f-x02	u957f-g u957f-02	By analogy with 長.
青	u9752	u9751	Chinese and Japanese simplification
非	u975e-k	u975e	Kangxi alternates between the two forms, but I prefer the more conservative form with the strokes not crossing.
食※7	u98df-k u98df-01-var-004	u98df u98e0-01 u2967f-01	Traditional Chinese form better preserves the shape of the base character.
黄※8	u9ec4	u9ec3	Simplified Chinese and Shinjitai form
龹	u20509	u9fb9	Kangxi form. Does not apply to characters derived from 朕 (whose combining form has a similar appearance).
𦰩	u26c29-u	u26c29	Kangxi form

※1. Exceptions: 刄 (+derived).
※2. Exceptions: 勸, 夢 (+懜), 歡, 舊, 觀.
※3. Exception: 歸.
※4. u722b-03-var-007 matches the intended specification better, but some variation is acceptable. Exceptions: 㥯 (+derived), 亂, 爭 (+derived), 稱, 爲 (+derived), 覶, 辭.
※5. Exceptions: 旣 (+derived), 節 (+derived).
※6. Exception: 櫫.
※7. u98e0-01-var-005 was formerly used, but is now deprecated.
※8. Exceptions: 廣 (+derived), 橫.

Official Fonts

グループ:cang-jie_xn-kanji (Unicode characters in the orthodox style)

グループ:cang-jie_printed-kanji (Conversion of variant forms, slightly outdated)

https://data.gov.tw/dataset/5961 (Handwriting/cursive standard)