Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chinese characters/Template

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Nice work, Taku! Do you think you could work in a section for the relative rarity of characters for each language? That would be very helpful for learners.

[edit] some suggestions

• For each character, show most common glyphs in use in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan
• Show variant glyphs
• Show traditional index radical, plus index radicals from alternative systems
• Show Morohashi number, Nelson number, position in Joyo Kanji (if applicable), etc.
• Show a few words containing the character with English translation. Could be helpful to illuminate differences in usage between Chinese and Japanese for the same kanji compounds (eg 手紙、無料)

adamrice 22:21, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Monochrome?

The suggested template shows a placeholder for a monochrome 64x64px image of the character. Why not use a grayscale image?

See this example; left is properly anti-aliased grayscale, right is monochrome. JeroenHoek 20:46, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] updated "meaning" table

I made some edits to the "meaning" table that will, I hope, make it a little clearer and simpler. adamrice 13:37, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)