<p>Wikipedia has the following pages:</p>
<ul>
<li><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuanese_characters" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Sichuanese characters</a> &amp; <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9B%9B%E5%B7%9D%E6%96%B9%E8%A8%80%E5%AD%97" rel="nofollow noreferrer">四川方言字</a></p>
</li>
<li><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Written_Cantonese#Cantonese_characters" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Written Cantonese</a> &amp; <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B2%B5%E8%AA%9E%E5%AD%97" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Cantonese characters</a></p>
</li>
<li><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Written_Hokkien#Chinese_characters" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Written Hokkien</a> &amp; <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B0%E9%96%A9%E6%BC%A2%E5%AD%97" rel="nofollow noreferrer">台閩漢字</a></p>
</li>
<li><p><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%B4%E8%AF%AD%E5%AD%97" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Wu characters</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Here you can find characters that solely belong to topolects.</p>
<p>There is also an introduction to topolectical characters:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hant/%E6%96%B9%E8%A8%80%E5%AD%97" rel="nofollow noreferrer">方言字</a></li>
</ul>
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<p>Many topolectical characters are also still being prepped for Unicode encoding. If you're curious you can go through <a href="https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">BabelStone Han PUA</a> to get an idea of whats to come for CJKV extensions.</p>
<p>You will also notice that topolectical characters are not just simply written in simplified. Most historical documents are written in traditional and oftentimes the simplified characters that do arise are just simply 類推 (simplified characters by analogy).</p>

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<p>In other character-based writing systems such as Chu Nomh, Kanji, and Hanja, there are customized characters due to regional dialects. Has this occurred with Simplified at all? Or has the government locked down any attempt and forced unifying of the script?</p>
<p>For instance, the sichuan dialects are vastly different from standard mandarin. Are there any regional characters?</p>

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Are Characters customized in different provinces due to dialectal differences?
# Are Characters customized in different provinces due to dialectal differences?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-08-19)

In other character-based writing systems such as Chu Nomh, Kanji, and Hanja, there are customized characters due to regional dialects. Has this occurred with Simplified at all? Or has the government locked down any attempt and forced unifying of the script?

For instance, the sichuan dialects are vastly different from standard mandarin. Are there any regional characters?

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2020-08-19. Score: 4 | Accepted answer

Wikipedia has the following pages:

* [Sichuanese characters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuanese_characters) & [四川方言字](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9B%9B%E5%B7%9D%E6%96%B9%E8%A8%80%E5%AD%97)
* [Written Cantonese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Written_Cantonese#Cantonese_characters) & [Cantonese characters](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B2%B5%E8%AA%9E%E5%AD%97)
* [Written Hokkien](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Written_Hokkien#Chinese_characters) & [台閩漢字](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B0%E9%96%A9%E6%BC%A2%E5%AD%97)
* [Wu characters](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%B4%E8%AF%AD%E5%AD%97)

Here you can find characters that solely belong to topolects.

There is also an introduction to topolectical characters:

* [方言字](https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hant/%E6%96%B9%E8%A8%80%E5%AD%97)

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Many topolectical characters are also still being prepped for Unicode encoding. If you're curious you can go through [BabelStone Han PUA](https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html) to get an idea of whats to come for CJKV extensions.

You will also notice that topolectical characters are not just simply written in simplified. Most historical documents are written in traditional and oftentimes the simplified characters that do arise are just simply 類推 (simplified characters by analogy).


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