chart-of-standard-forms-of-national-characters

Typed JSON package for Taiwan's Ministry of Education (教育部) Chart of Standard Forms of National Characters (國字標準字體表) — three lists of standard Traditional Chinese characters:

| List | Count | File | | ------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | ------------------------ | | Common National Characters (常用國字標準字體表) | 4,808 | common.json | | Less-Than-Common National Characters (次常用國字標準字體表) | 6,329 | less-than-common.json | | Rarely-Used National Characters (罕用字體表) | 18,319 | rarely-used.json |

Installation

npm install chart-of-standard-forms-of-national-characters

Usage

import {
  commonCharacters,
  lessThanCommonCharacters,
  rarelyUsedCharacters,
} from "chart-of-standard-forms-of-national-characters";

console.log(commonCharacters.length);          // 4808
console.log(lessThanCommonCharacters.length);  // 6329
console.log(rarelyUsedCharacters.length);      // 18319

You can also import the JSON files directly — sibling .d.ts files type each default export as string[]:

import common from "chart-of-standard-forms-of-national-characters/common.json";
import lessThanCommon from "chart-of-standard-forms-of-national-characters/less-than-common.json";
import rarelyUsed from "chart-of-standard-forms-of-national-characters/rarely-used.json";

Each list is a flat string[] of single characters in the official spreadsheet order.

Data source

The character lists and ordering follow Taiwan's MOE standard. The spreadsheet in data/臺灣TW-ABCN正字甲乙丙表.xlsx is sourced from TraditionalChinese/TW-ABCN.

Regenerating the JSON

node --experimental-strip-types scripts/parse.ts

License

MIT