Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS)

Realizing the inherent differences between written Chinese and written Cantonese, the Government of Hong Kong initially created the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set in 1995 to streamline electronic communications in Hong Kong. New characters have been added to the character set in subsequent years.

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Collections

Browse and discover characters in conveniently grouped collections, including 'Tang' (characters with Tang-era pronunciations available), 'Commonly Used', and 'Vietnamese'.

View characters by the year added to the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set.

Glyph Variants

See how a single character can be written in various glyph variants, some of which may commonly used in a specific country.

Voice to Speech

Hear and compare how the same character can be read in Cantonese, Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese, and Mandarin.

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Unihan Metadata

View a character’s associated Unihan database metadata, if available.

Unihan metadata is provided by Unicode.