On March, 2002 1 March1day, the Ministry of Education and the State Language Committee promulgated and implemented the General Specification for the Order of Chinese Characters. In September 2020, the standard was approved by the Language and Character Standards Examination and Approval Committee of the State Language Committee.
Development history:
The General Specification of Chinese Characters' Stroke Order will replace the Standard of Stroke Order of Modern Chinese Commonly Used Characters issued by the State Language Committee 1997. In this standard, the stroke order rules are included in the Chinese Character Table of General Specification approved and issued by the State Council in August 20 13. The stroke order of each character is given according to the current standard song style of Chinese character form.
Provide ISO/IEC 10646 international standard coding (UCS) and Chinese character serial number list of general specification. This standard is the basic standard to serve and meet the requirements of language life for language specification, and will provide an important basis for Chinese character teaching and research, information processing, sorting and retrieval, dictionary compilation and so on.
Knowledge expansion:
Introduction of Chinese characters:
Chinese characters (Pinyin: hànzì, Zhuyin: ㄏㄢˋˋ), also known as Chinese characters, are recorded symbols of Chinese and belong to morpheme syllables of ideographic characters. One of the oldest characters in the world has a history of more than 6000 years.
In form, it gradually changes from graphics to strokes, pictographs to symbols, and complex to simple; In the principle of word formation, from ideographic, ideographic to phonological. Except for a few Chinese characters (such as Zi, Zi, Zi, Chi and Zi), they are all one Chinese character and one syllable.
Modern Chinese characters refer to capitalized Chinese characters, including traditional characters and simplified characters. Modern Chinese characters have developed from Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, seal script and seal script to official script, cursive script, regular script and running script. Chinese characters were invented and improved by Han ancestors, which is an indispensable link to maintain the Han dialect area.
The earliest existing Chinese characters are Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Shang Dynasty and later inscriptions on bronze in about 1300 BC, which evolved into seal script in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and then to seal script and official script in the Qin Dynasty, until the official script prevailed in the Han and Wei Dynasties, and the official script was changed to regular script at the end of the Han Dynasty. Regular script prevailed in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.