Chinese Character Simplification Scheme | |||||||
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Original title | 漢字簡化方案 | ||||||
Presented | 7 January 1955 | ||||||
Ratified | 31 January 1956 | ||||||
Date effective | 1 February 1956 | ||||||
Superseded | May 1964, by the General List of Simplified Chinese Characters | ||||||
Commissioned by | State Council of the People's Republic of China | ||||||
Author(s) | Language Reform Research Committee of China | ||||||
Purpose | Chinese character simplification | ||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 漢字簡化方案 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 汉字简化方案 | ||||||
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The Chinese Character Simplification Scheme is a list of simplified Chinese characters promulgated in 1956 by the State Council of the People's Republic of China. It contains the vast majority of simplified characters in use today. To distinguish it from the second round of simplified Chinese characters published in 1977, the 1956 list is also known as the First Chinese Character Simplification Scheme.