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Latest comment: 6 years ago by Yug
  1. This project's initial contributors have retired. You are welcome to take over ! --Yug (talk) 17:33, 27 December 2017 (UTC)Reply
  2. ✓ Done Finished the Commons:Ancient Chinese characters/seal -- 0 missing !!!
  3. The template {{ACClicense}} (example) needs some love and upgrade, so to look as elegant as the {{SOlicense}} template (example).
  4. The template {{ACClicense}} & {{SOlicense}} must allow visitors easy access to the how-to tutorials so to ease action.
  5. Find fonts to programmatically generate the Songti, Kaishu, Lishu sets.
  6. ✓ Done Template:Chinese characters naming: add "priority" column (as for teaching) #f7fcb9 #addd8e #31a354; add coverage column.
  7. ✓ Done Migrate the 214 SVGs of Kangxi radicals in the dictionary’s own style to {*}-mingti-kangxi.svg
Pri. Type Minimal definition Dominant objective Time period Old convention New convention Example Coverage
Images showing writing styles
•• 金文 jīnwén>Shang Casted bronze scripts, Shang period 1300 BCE –
1046 BCE		 馬-s.svg 馬-bronze-shang.svg 1
•••• 甲骨文 jiǎgǔwén Knife carved oracle scripts 1300 BCE –
1046 BCE		 馬-oracle.svg 馬-oracle.svg 8
• 甲骨文 jiǎgǔwén>Western Zhou Knife carved oracle scripts, Western Zhou period 1046 BCE –
771 BCE		 — 馬-oracle-zhouyuan.svg N/A 3
•••• 金文 jīnwén Casted bronze scripts, Western Zhou period 1046 BCE –
771 BCE		 馬-bronze.svg 馬-bronze.svg 8
•• 金文 jīnwén>Spring and Autumn Casted bronze scripts, Spring and Autumn period 771 BCE –
476 BCE		 馬-sa.svg 馬-bronze-spring.svg 1
•• 金文 jīnwén>Warring States Casted bronze scripts, Warring States period 476 BCE –
221 BCE		 馬-w.svg 馬-bronze-warring.svg 7
••• 簡帛文字 jiǎnbówénzì Brush on slip or silk scripts by Chu state 476 BCE –
221 BCE		 — 馬-silk.svg 3 1
••• 簡牘文字 jiǎndúwénzì Brush on slip scripts by Qin state 476 BCE –
221 BCE		 — 馬-slip.svg 15
• 傳抄古文字 Chuánchāo gǔwénzì Transcribed various ancient Guwen scripts before Qin dynasty, collected by Hanjian — — 馬-hanjian.svg 0
• 傳抄古文字 Chuánchāo gǔwénzì Transcribed various ancient Guwen scripts before Qin dynasty, collected by Sishengyun — — 馬-GWSSY.svg 0
• 傳抄古文字 Chuánchāo gǔwénzì Transcribed various ancient Guwen scripts before Qin dynasty, collected by Jizhuan Yunhai — — 馬-JZGWYH.svg 0
• 傳抄古文字 Chuánchāo gǔwénzì Transcribed ancient Guwen big seal script before Qin dynasty, collected by Liushutong 221 BCE –
1644 CE		 馬-bigseal.svg 馬-bigseal.svg 4
•• 隸書 / 隶书 lìshū Early ancient clerical script to be specific, collected by Libian 221 BCE –
134 BCE		 — 馬-clerical.svg 25
•• 隸書 / 隶书 lìshū [Temporary category under discussion]
Early ancient clerical script to be specific, collected by Libian		 historical 221 BCE –
134 BCE (actual)		 — 馬-clerical-han.svg 5
•• 隸書 / 隶书 lìshū [Temporary category under discussion]
Modern stylisation of early ancient clerical script		 teaching 221 BCE –
134 BCE (fake)		 — 馬-clerical-qing.svg 0
• 奇字 qízì Similar to variants, collected by Shuowen 221 BCE –
220 CE		 — 馬-odd.svg N/A 0
•• 古文 gǔwén Script from Zuo zhuan by Warring States, collected by Shuowen 221 BCE –
220 CE		 馬-ancient.svg 馬-ancient.svg 42
•• 籀文 zhòuwén Script from Shizhoupian by late Western Zhou, collected by Shuowen 221 BCE –
220 CE		 馬-zhou.svg 馬-zhou.svg 0
•••• 篆 > 小篆 xiǎo zhuàn Normalized zhuan scripts by Qin dynasty and some Han dynasty zhuan scripts, collected by Shuowen 221 BCE –
220 CE		 馬-seal.svg 馬-seal.svg 109
New Modern Chinese Characters **
•• 草書 / 草书 cǎoshū Brush on paper's fast script, aka Cursive. teaching 43 BCE –
present		 — (font available) 馬-caoshu.svg 55
•• 行書 / 行书 xíngshū Brush on paper's fluid writing, aka Semi-cursive. teaching ca. 100 CE –
present		 — (font available) 馬-xingshu.svg 199
•• 楷書 / 楷书 kǎishū Brush on paper since Han dynasty, aka Regular scripts teaching ca. 200 CE –
present		 — (font available) 馬-kaishu.svg 728
•• 宋體 / 宋体 sòngtǐ,
明體 / 明体 míngtǐ		 Printing-blocks scripts. Aka Songti, Mingti. teaching 1368 CE –
present		 — (font available) 馬-songti.svg 406
• 明體 / 明体 míngtǐ > 康熙 kāngxī Printing-blocks scripts in Kangxi dictionary historical 1716 CE –
present		 — (font available) 馬-mingti-kangxi.svg 219
Images showing stroke order
• 楷書 / 楷书 kǎishū Animated by stroke teaching web era 馬-sbs.gif 馬-sbs.gif ** 5
•• 楷書 / 楷书 kǎishū Black to red progression teaching web era 馬-red.png 馬-[tj]red.svg ** 257 18 29
•• 黑體 / 黑体 hēitǐ Animated with directional arrows, on hēitǐ (Sans-serif) characters teaching web era — 馬-[tj]order (Sans-serif).gif ** 12 0 0
•••• 楷書 / 楷书 kǎishū Animated calligraphy teaching web era 馬-order.gif 馬-[tj]order.gif ** 589 7 27
•••• 楷書 / 楷书 kǎishū Row of grey to black chars with directional hints teaching web era 馬-bw.png 馬-[tj]bw.svg ** 1,066 10 102
** Do not use “m”, “t”, or “j” freely in filenames above. We use them such: “m” for modern, “t” for traditional, “j” for Japanese, etc. ed

NEW! On dominant objective

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  • Styles are artificial groupings along a spectrum of writings. Outside Wikimedia, each style actually gather endless variations by its writers.
  • Two opposite objectives are therefor possible on that spectrum:
    • historical accurate: documents the exact glyph as done by the writers of that time. Various glyph representations of a same character may be uploaded. This is what history, calligraphy enthusiasts, academics look for.
    • teaching principles: represents the implicitly agreed, canonical, idealized, shape-simplified, smoothed principle of a style. This is what fonts do and propagate, and what teachers looks for.
  • ACC categories are on this spectrum. Those who do and upload, decide where their category stands.
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