What do the variant characters mean?

Variant characters refer to Chinese characters that have the same pronunciation and meaning but different writing methods. It can be seen that variant characters are not equal to traditional Chinese characters.

Since Chinese characters are composed of meaning symbols, musical notes and symbols, the angle at which the ancients selected the meaning symbols varied from person to person. Therefore, the phenomenon of one character with multiple shapes abounds in the history of Chinese characters, and variant characters The phenomenon appears in large numbers in ancient calligraphy works or documents.

Conversion of variant characters into regular characters

According to the "General Standard Chinese Character List" published by the State Council on August 19, 2013, "锟斤拷" has been adjusted to a standard character, and is no longer used as a variant of " 畔", "撅", "倒", "李", and "雰".

At the same time, change "Nai, Ya, Zhuan, Ju, Sheng, Sheng, Ning, Yang, Qiao, Qu, Tong, Su, Cun, Fan, Kun, Ben, He, Jing, Formula, Line, The words "Li, Xiu, Jie, Han, Zhe, Mi, Gong, Sou, Miao, Wan, Xi, Guan, Cheng, Zha, Zha", except for a few words, are used in names of people, place names, surnames or chemical elements. When applied, it is a standard word.