Language Info

Chinese written in Simplified script

Below you'll find all the characters used to write this language and all the countries where this language is used.

Alternate Scripts for Chinese

  • Chinese can also be written using the Bopomofo script
  • Chinese can also be written using the Han with Bopomofo script
  • Chinese can also be written using the Han script
  • Chinese can also be written using the Traditional script

Standard Characters

The minimal characters required for this language

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Auxiliary Characters

Additional letters (beyond the minimal set) used in foreign or technical words found in typical magazines, newspapers, etc..

Punctuation Characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning

Unicode Blocks

Chinese uses characters from the following Unicode blocks

Countries

The worldwide literate language population for Chinese is 1,246,337,104 people across 5 countries.

China

1,241,370,000 people
90.00% literate in Chinese

Singapore

4,534,476 people

Hong Kong SAR China

359,575 people

Mongolia

42,955 people

Macau SAR China

30,098 people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places, and we want to give them credit here. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes that support the language.

  1. Unicode CLDR
  2. CLDR Exemplar Characters