Tuesday 15 March 2016

What’s an authoritative source for a complete list of official shinjitai kanji?


I found quite a few website tables and software conversors, but none that was both complete and authoritative. Is there any place I can find such a list in digital format?


拡張新字体 would be a nice bonus, but what I’m really interested is the official list.



Answer



The official list of jōyō kanji 常用漢字 contains simplification information (e.g. 悪(惡) means "悪, which is the shinjitai of 惡").


The list of jinmeiyō kanji (PDF) 人名用漢字 also contains some info about simplification, in the opposite format, because here the meaning is "you can use 惡, which is the kyūjitai of 悪, in names."


These are probably the closest to an official list as you are going to get, if by "official" you mean "formally codified by the government of Japan." There may be websites who have rearranged the information so that it is in the sort of 旧字体:新字体 list you are after, but if they're privately run sites then they're one step away from officialdom.


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