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Meaning of 异体字

异体字 means variant character; character having the same pronunciation and meaning as the standard form but a different glyph. Pronounced yì tǐ zì.

  • variant character; character having the same pronunciation and meaning as the standard form but a different glyph

Definitions & Examples

 
Kǎo
 
shì
 
kǎo
 
de
 

“攷” is a variant form of “考”.

 
 
shì
 
 
de
 

“隄” is a variant form of “堤”.

Zhěng
shí
yào
shí
bié
zhǒng
 

When collating ancient texts, it is necessary to recognize various variant characters.

19551
nián9
5
5
le
 
zhěng
biǎo
 
 
 
 
 

The First List of Variant Characters was published in 1955.