CNįont-handling for Chinese characters is really hard to get right and some browsers won’t even allow you to set specific Chinese fonts, in which case the above test will fail unless you select one of the fonts I listed as your default font for all text, which is probably a bad idea. If you have the fonts mentioned above configured properly, you should get the middle column matching the either the on the left or right. To allow for comparison, the references are images, not text, so they will look the same regardless what settings you have. Your browser’s current default sans serif fontīoth the fonts I have selected are 楷体/楷體, which is suitable if you’re learning to read and write characters.Mainland Chinese standard, using 方正楷体简体.The Chinese font and character variation checkerīelow, I have provided three columns of characters as follows: In this article, I’ll help you make sure you’re using the right font. I have written more about Chinese fonts and character variations in this article:Ĭhinese character variants and fonts for language learners These differences are not because of simplified and traditional characters, that’s a completely different issue. However, there is a fairly large number of characters that look distinctly different depending on which font you use. Now, you might think that font choice is a matter of aesthetics, and you’d be mostly right. This is especially true if you’re going to handwrite characters you read from screen (including from most dictionaries). If you are already literate in Chinese, which font you use to display characters on screen isn’t very important, but for second language learners, it can be very confusing if you use the wrong font (or if someone else is using the wrong font).

Chinese style font for word