Most literate people would probably not even notice most of these differences when reading, but they are quite easy to spot if you look for them. In other words, if you’re only reading, it doesn’t really matter.
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If you know of more, please let me know!Īs I said in the introduction, font differences are mainly important if you use your computer to learn how to write characters by hand, such as by using flashcards or printing text for writing practice. I have not included characters that have the same or very similar differences as those described or covered elsewhere in this article. Here are some more characters that are written differently (try switching font or looking them up in dictionaries): That’s also a font I use here on Hacking Chinese, but you probably won’t see it unless you happen to have it installed already. For example, one of the open source traditional fonts I use a lot (AR PL UKai TW), gives correct Taiwan standard for most characters, but not for 雪, 聚 and 窗.
However, you can still see if the coloured parts match or not. Now, unless you use exactly the fonts I recommended, you probably won’t get a 100% match. The middle row is the text in my word processor, the other two are the pictures copied from above: This is what it looks like if you paste both pictures and select the 教育部標準楷書 font. See if the coloured parts of the characters match.Adjust size (I used 26 for the screen below).Paste below the image in your word processor.Copy one of the two pictures below (red for Mainland, blue for Taiwan).Here is a simpler way of checking any font using any an ordinary word processor.
The above set-up works on my system (Chrome on Ubuntu), but don’t panic if it doesn’t work on yours! CNįont-handling for Chinese characters is really hard to get right and some browsers won’t even allow you to set specific Chinese fonts, in which case the above test will fail unless you select one of the fonts I listed as your default font for all text, which is probably a bad idea. If you have the fonts mentioned above configured properly, you should get the middle column matching the either the on the left or right. To allow for comparison, the references are images, not text, so they will look the same regardless what settings you have.
This is especially true if you’re going to handwrite characters you read from screen (including from most dictionaries). If you are already literate in Chinese, which font you use to display characters on screen isn’t very important, but for second language learners, it can be very confusing if you use the wrong font (or if someone else is using the wrong font).
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