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March 8, 2014
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Guobiao code

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Guobiao code is a collective term of the national standard encoding of the People's Republic of China.

In computer contexts, "GB" alone is often used to mention GB2312|GB 2312-80 issued in 1981, GBK, or GB18030|GB 18030-2000 issued in 2000. These are encoding standards for Chinese characters.

These character encoding methods are used to code for Simplified Chinese characters, which are used in Mainland China and Singapore. Republic of China|Taiwan and Hong Kong, which use Traditional Chinese characters, have Big5 as their standard.

There are 6763 Chinese characters in the GB 2312-80 codeset, versus 13053 in the Big5 codeset. Some other symbols, such as punctuations, full-width Latin alphabets, Greek alphabets, Russian Cyrillic alphabets and Japanese Hiragana and Katakana are also included in GB 2312-80 charset.

The pinyin, romanization of these characters, is standardized as well. It can be used
as one of the several Chinese input methods for computers|Chinese input systems (e.g., by typing Z-H-O-N-G for the character 中)




  • Guobiao|Guobiao National Standards of the People's Republic of China


zh:国家标准代码
Category:Character sets

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Guobiao code".


Last Modified:   2005-02-27


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