(XINHUA)

An official list standardizing the appearance of commonly used Chinese characters was published, the Ministry of Education revealed on August 27.

The 8,105 characters included in the list were chosen based on their frequency of use from hundreds of thousands of characters that have emerged since the beginnings of the Chinese writing system in ancient times, according to compilers.

It also includes a table for conversion between the simplified and traditional forms of these characters to facilitate Chinese language communications.