Xinjianti

***Xinjianti*** (新简体, xīnjiǎntǐ, "new simplified form") is the standardized writing system prescribed for Post-classical Chinese. Derived from the Simplified Chinese character set, they are intended to utilize a more traditional system of character writing based around Chinese radicals or cursive scripts rather than phonetic rebus transformations.

## Traditional Forms from Simplified Characters

Rather than simplifying existing character forms as PRC Simplified Characters have done, the new simplified form aims to restore many radical forms from the Traditional corpus.

## Methods of Simplification

Simplification is mainly done from the Traditional form, in order to preserve the ideogrammic nature of the original character.

## Conventions

It is the prescribed standard for characters to use the simplified Chinese typeset with the exception of characters (usually under the radical 肉 meat) which instead use traditional ROC standard forms if semantically applicable: 胃 > 胃，次 > 次.

Some new character forms are not fully supported by computer fonts or even Unicode, so traditional or simplified character forms are prescribed for usage depending on similarity to the new simplified character. For example, the character ⿰月⿱夫力 (PRC Simplified: 胜) is represented by the traditional character 勝, while the character ⿵门关 (Shinjitai: 関) is represented by the simplified character 关.

When writing proper nouns in Chinese, it is recommended to separate them by spacing from the rest of the text unless the characters are exclusively used in proper nouns, ex. 陈霸先 would use spacing but not 禹. Ruler titles are separated as a whole, and not just the proper noun section. Names of states are generally not separated unless for transcriptions such as 日本 (which should neither be read as "root of the sun" nor "Riben" in English). Of course, the alternative to this spacing convention would simply be to add ruby text (日本 (Japan) ). Because such names have different transliterations for different countries, ruby text is generally not used in this manner.

Xinjianti recognizes three types of variant forms:

* *Unorthodox* or *prescribed variant* forms (俗体) are acceptable for daily or informal use, most of which are handwritten simplifications of more complicated characters. Some of these characters were created specifically for use in Xinjianti, but are unorthodox due to not being in widespread use.
	+ *Traditional* forms (繁体) form a specialized subset of unorthodox characters. Usually used in highly formal situations, they are also customary in areas such as book titles and headings.
	+ *Abbreviated* forms (略体) consist of those characters regularly derived via cursive radical simplification, such as 门 or 丝.
* *Proscribed variant* forms (異体) may not be used in any environment. These are generally characters simplified using the rebus phonetic principle, which would cause confusion in translingual contexts.
	+ *Erroneous* characters (讹字) are considered misspellings and are usually hypercorrections with a difference of one or two strokes from the orthodox character.
* *Personal name use* forms (人名用): Personal names generally should use simplified characters, but if the simplified form of a traditional character is a traditional character on its own, one may use a variant character listed in the *Renmingyong* Hanzi list. Hanzi in this list are specially simplified forms of traditional characters which retain structural recognizability while still conforming to analogous simplifications; traditional forms in this list are not classed as unorthodox forms.

## See also

* Proposed List of Xinjianti, based on the *Table of General Standard Chinese Characters*
* List of Hanzi used for names (tentative)
* List of Standardized Ateji
* Post-classical Chinese - lexicon and syntax using this writing system