ChangBanDianSong

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A bitmap Song typeface by yzdnn, extending the KH Dot Dogenzaka series by Keitaro Hiraki / Jikasei Font Kobo with simplified and traditional Chinese characters. The 12px size comes in a regular and an anti-blur cut (the SP suffix, which leaves an extra pixel of sidebearing to the right of each character); the 16px size comes in simplified (SC) and traditional (TC) glyph sets. Upstream publishes the two sizes from two separate repositories; they are catalogued here as one family.

Variant size table

Variants Nominal size Han ink box Max ink extents
ChangBanDianSong-12 12 px 12×12 13×13
ChangBanDianSong-SP-12 12 px 12×12 13×13
ChangBanDianSong-SC-16 16 px 15×16 16×17
ChangBanDianSong-TC-16 17 px 15×16 16×17
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Metrics

Nominal size 16 px
Han ink box 15×16
Cap height 13
x-height 9
Max ink extents 16×17
Ascent / Descent 14 / 2
Font bounding box 16, 17, 0, -3
Spacing Monospaced
Advance width distribution 8px×503 15px×43 16px×14946
Nominal box 16×16 Han ink (median) 15×16 Max ink 16×17

Character coverage

Overview

Encoded characters 15,492 / 297,264 5.21%
BMP 15,218 / 62,089 24.51%
SIP 267 / 61,513 0.43%
TIP 7 / 13,429 0.05%
Compatibility Ideographs * 77 / 1002 7.68%
Private Use Areas (PUA) · BMP PUA 153 / 6,400 2.39%
Private Use Areas (PUA) · Plane 15 0 / 65,534 0.00%
Private Use Areas (PUA) · Plane 16 0 / 65,534 0.00%

General & international

International Ideographs Core (IICore) 9,403 / 9,810 95.85%
Unihan Core 2020 13,043 / 20,720 62.95%
Windows Glyph List 4 443 / 650 68.15%
Basic Latin 95 / 95 100% ✓ Complete
Latin-1 Supplement 96 / 96 100% ✓ Complete
Latin Extended-A 17 / 128 13.28%
Latin Extended-B 43 / 208 20.67%
Cyrillic Everyday Characters 66 / 97 68.04%
Greek Everyday Characters 49 / 72 68.06%
Arabic Everyday Characters 0 / 92 0.00%
Thai Everyday Characters 0 / 87 0.00%
Vietnamese Latin 86 / 186 46.24%
IBM Code Page 437 255 / 255 100% ✓ Complete
Box Drawing 105 / 128 82.03%
Block Elements 20 / 32 62.50%
Powerline Symbols 40 / 41 97.56%
Braille Patterns 0 / 256 0.00%

CJK character map

CJK unified ideographs Unicode 17 13,557 / 101,996
Selected CJK, without duplicates 12,038 / 26,28145.8%
CJK character map Schematic overlaps; areas are not proportional to character counts. Taiwan · Common/Less-common Traditional Han: 8,168 / 11,151; Mainland China · General Simplified Han: 8,105 / 8,105; Japan · JIS X 0208 Level 1: 2,965 / 2,965; Korea · KS X 1001 unified Han: 4,499 / 4,620. Simp Trad Shared: 4,899 / 4,899. Taiwan · Common/Less-common Traditional Han 8,168 / 11,151 73.2% Common 4,808 / 4,808 Mainland China · General Simplified Han 8,105 / 8,105 100% Level 1 3,500 / 3,500 Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han Simp Trad Shared 4,899 / 4,899 Japan · JIS X 0208 Level 1 2,965 / 2,965 Korea · KS X 1001 unified Han 4,499 / 4,620 97.4%
Taiwan · Common/Less-common Traditional Han8,168 / 11,151 73.2% Common 4,808 / 4,808
Mainland China · General Simplified Han8,105 / 8,105 100% Level 1 3,500 / 3,500
Japan · JIS X 0208 Level 12,965 / 2,965 100%
Korea · KS X 1001 unified Han4,499 / 4,620 97.4%
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han4,899 / 4,899
Hiragana & Katakana 171 / 171 100% Other kana 78 / 408
Hangul syllables 0 / 11,172 0% KS X 1001 syllables 0 / 2,350
Hangul Jamo, with extensions 0 / 451
Basic Bopomofo 37 / 37 100% Other Bopomofo 6 / 38
Schematic overlaps; areas are not proportional to character counts.
Explore the counts & definitions

The selected CJK total combines the four Han tables, the JIS hiragana and katakana with ー・, Hangul syllables and basic Bopomofo, counting each code point once. Jamo, compatibility Han, other kana and other Bopomofo are listed separately.

“Simp Trad Shared” counts Unicode code points shared by the Simplified and Traditional Han reference sets. Shared code points can still have different regional glyph shapes, for example through OpenType locl; coverage does not imply identical glyphs.

Unicode 17. Counts use exact code points, with no variant-form or compatibility normalization. The Han map includes the 12 unified ideographs in the compatibility block; other compatibility ideographs are listed separately. “Only” means absent from the other three reference sets.

Taiwan: the 4,808 common and 6,343 less-common character tables. Mainland China: the 8,105 standard characters in three levels. Japan: the 2,965 JIS X 0208 Level 1 kanji. Korea: the unified Han subset of KS X 1001. The small lines under Taiwan and Mainland China show the common table (4,808) and Level 1 (3,500), which the Traditional and Simplified Chinese labels are judged on. The kana figure is the 83 hiragana and 86 katakana of JIS X 0208 plus ー and ・; rare, historical, extended and halfwidth kana are listed as other kana. Basic Bopomofo is the 37 letters U+3105–3129; dialect letters and the extended block are listed as other Bopomofo.

Shared & unique characters
Shared & unique charactersCovered / total
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han 4,899 / 4,899100%
Japanese Kanji ∩ Traditional Han 2,495 / 2,495100%
Japanese Kanji ∩ Simplified Han 1,904 / 1,904100%
Korean Han ∩ Traditional Han 4,261 / 4,29499.2%
Korean Han ∩ Simplified Han 2,799 / 2,799100%
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han ∩ Japanese Kanji 1,771 / 1,771100%
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han ∩ Korean Han 2,733 / 2,733100%
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han ∩ Japanese Kanji ∩ Korean Han 1,698 / 1,698100%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han 11,374 / 14,35779.2%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han ∪ Japanese Kanji 11,711 / 14,69479.7%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han ∪ Korean Han 11,546 / 14,61779%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han ∪ Japanese Kanji ∪ Korean Han 11,830 / 14,90179.4%
Traditional Han only 1,688 / 4,63836.4%
Simplified Han only 3,028 / 3,028100%
Japanese Kanji only 284 / 284100%
Korean Han only 119 / 20757.5%

Reference tables: Unicode 17 · FontPixel

CJK character totals

CJK unified ideographs 13,557 / 101,996 13.29%
Selected CJK, without duplicates 12,038 / 26,281 45.80%

Simplified Chinese · National standards

GB/T 2312 Hanzi 6,763 / 6,763 100% ✓ Complete
GB/T 2312 Level 1 Hanzi 3,755 / 3,755 100% ✓ Complete
GB/T 2312 Level 2 Hanzi 3,008 / 3,008 100% ✓ Complete
GBK Hanzi 13,057 / 20,923 62.41%
GB/T 12345 Traditional Hanzi 6,866 / 6,866 100% ✓ Complete
GB 18030-2022 Implementation Level 3 13,760 / 88,115 15.62%
GB 18030-2022 Implementation Level 2 13,478 / 27,780 48.52%
GB 18030-2022 Implementation Level 1 13,282 / 27,584 48.15%

Simplified Chinese · Language standards

Table of General Standard Chinese Characters 8,105 / 8,105 100% ✓ Complete
General Standard Chinese Characters Level 1 3,500 / 3,500 100% ✓ Complete
General Standard Chinese Characters Level 2 3,000 / 3,000 100% ✓ Complete
General Standard Chinese Characters Level 3 1,605 / 1,605 100% ✓ Complete
List of Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese 3,500 / 3,500 100% ✓ Complete
Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese (2500) 2,500 / 2,500 100% ✓ Complete
Less Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese (1000) 1,000 / 1,000 100% ✓ Complete
List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese 7,000 / 7,000 100% ✓ Complete
Compulsory Education Chinese Character List 3,500 / 3,500 100% ✓ Complete
Standard Glyph Forms for Ancient Book Printing 8,677 / 14,250 60.89%
Kangxi Radicals 214 / 214 100% ✓ Complete
CJK Radicals Supplement 115 / 115 100% ✓ Complete
Hanyi Simplified & Traditional Set 9,169 / 9,169 100% ✓ Complete
FounderType Simplified & Traditional Set 9,664 / 9,664 100% ✓ Complete

Traditional Chinese · Taiwan

Taiwan common and less-common Han (total) 8,168 / 11,151 73.25%
Standard Forms of Common National Characters 4,808 / 4,808 100% ✓ Complete
Standard Forms of Less-Common National Characters 3,360 / 6,343 52.97%
Big5 All Hanzi 8,705 / 13,053 66.69%
Big5 Frequently Used Hanzi 5,401 / 5,401 100% ✓ Complete
Big5 Less Frequently Used Hanzi 3,304 / 7,652 43.18%
Basic Bopomofo 37 / 37 100% ✓ Complete
Other Bopomofo 6 / 38 15.79%

Traditional Chinese · Hong Kong

List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters 4,762 / 4,762 100% ✓ Complete
Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set Hanzi 1,354 / 4,603 29.42%
Hong Kong Supplementary Characters in Common Use 681 / 1,102 61.80%

Japanese

JIS X 0208 Non-Kanji 523 / 524 99.81%
JIS X 0208 Level 1 Kanji 2,965 / 2,965 100% ✓ Complete
JIS X 0208 Level 2 Kanji 3,390 / 3,390 100% ✓ Complete
JIS X 0213 Level 3 Kanji 923 / 1,260 73.25%
JIS X 0213 Level 4 Kanji 1,165 / 2,397 48.60%
Joyo Kanji 2,136 / 2,136 100% ✓ Complete
Kyoiku Kanji 1,026 / 1,026 100% ✓ Complete
Jinmeiyo Kanji 827 / 864 95.72%
Hiragana & Katakana (JIS X 0208, with ー・) 171 / 171 100% ✓ Complete
Hiragana 83 / 83 100% ✓ Complete
Katakana 86 / 86 100% ✓ Complete
Other kana 78 / 408 19.12%
Other Hiragana and Katakana block characters 15 / 18 83.33%
Kana extensions 0 / 327 0.00%
Halfwidth Katakana 63 / 63 100% ✓ Complete
JIS X 0201 158 / 158 100% ✓ Complete

Korean

Hangul Syllables (All Modern) 0 / 11,172 0.00%
KS X 1001 Hangul Syllables 0 / 2,350 0.00%
KS X 1001 Han (total) 4,530 / 4,888 92.68%
KS X 1001 unified Han 4,499 / 4,620 97.38%
KS X 1001 compatibility Han 31 / 268 11.57%
KS X 1001 Symbols 661 / 987 66.97%
Hangul Jamo, with extensions 0 / 451 0.00%
Hangul Compatibility Jamo 0 / 94 0.00%
Hangul Jamo · base block 0 / 256 0.00%
Hangul Jamo extensions A and B 0 / 101 0.00%
Unicode blocks(50)
Basic Latin 95 / 128 74.22%
Latin-1 Supplement 96 / 128 75.00%
Latin Extended-A 17 / 128 13.28%
Latin Extended-B 43 / 208 20.67%
IPA Extensions 35 / 96 36.46%
Spacing Modifier Letters 5 / 80 6.25%
Greek and Coptic 49 / 134 36.57%
Cyrillic 66 / 256 25.78%
General Punctuation 40 / 111 36.04%
Superscripts and Subscripts 1 / 42 2.38%
Currency Symbols 1 / 34 2.94%
Letterlike Symbols 5 / 80 6.25%
Number Forms 34 / 60 56.67%
Arrows 13 / 112 11.61%
Mathematical Operators 48 / 256 18.75%
Miscellaneous Technical 5 / 256 1.95%
Enclosed Alphanumerics 60 / 160 37.50%
Box Drawing 105 / 128 82.03%
Block Elements 20 / 32 62.50%
Geometric Shapes 17 / 96 17.71%
Miscellaneous Symbols 29 / 256 11.33%
Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows 4 / 254 1.57%
CJK Radicals Supplement 115 / 115 100%
Kangxi Radicals 214 / 214 100%
Ideographic Description Characters 16 / 16 100%
CJK Symbols and Punctuation 40 / 64 62.50%
Hiragana 92 / 93 98.92%
Katakana 94 / 96 97.92%
Bopomofo 43 / 43 100%
Kanbun 16 / 16 100%
CJK Strokes 38 / 39 97.44%
Enclosed CJK Letters and Months 19 / 255 7.45%
CJK Compatibility 29 / 256 11.33%
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A 141 / 6,592 2.14%
CJK Unified Ideographs 13,131 / 20,992 62.55%
Private Use Area 153 / 6,400 2.39%
CJK Compatibility Ideographs 88 / 472 18.64%
Vertical Forms 10 / 10 100%
CJK Compatibility Forms 23 / 32 71.88%
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms 167 / 225 74.22%
Specials 1 / 5 20.00%
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B 91 / 42,720 0.21%
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C 48 / 4,160 1.15%
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D 10 / 222 4.50%
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E 114 / 5,774 1.97%
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension F 3 / 7,473 0.04%
CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 1 / 542 0.18%
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G 5 / 4,939 0.10%
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension H 1 / 4,192 0.02%
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension J 1 / 4,298 0.02%

Glyph overview

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Downloads

ChangBanDianSong-12 BDF 352.4 KB PCF 371.5 KB
ChangBanDianSong-SP-12 BDF 352.5 KB PCF 371.6 KB
ChangBanDianSong-SC-16 BDF 504.8 KB PCF 507.3 KB
ChangBanDianSong-TC-16 BDF 502.5 KB PCF 511.0 KB
Full family BDF ZIP chang-ban-dian-song.zip 1.73 MB
Bitmap TTF chang-ban-dian-song-monospaced.ttf 655.5 KB
Bitmap TTF chang-ban-dian-song-monospaced-zh-Hant.ttf 785.1 KB
Bitmap TTF chang-ban-dian-song-proportional.ttf 655.6 KB
Bitmap TTF chang-ban-dian-song-proportional-zh-Hans.ttf 785.1 KB
Vector TTF (square) chang-ban-dian-song-monospaced-12px-square.ttf 2.87 MB
Vector TTF (round) chang-ban-dian-song-monospaced-12px-round.ttf 9.38 MB
Vector TTF (square) chang-ban-dian-song-monospaced-zh-Hant-17px-square.ttf 3.49 MB
Vector TTF (round) chang-ban-dian-song-monospaced-zh-Hant-17px-round.ttf 13.56 MB
Vector TTF (square) chang-ban-dian-song-proportional-12px-square.ttf 2.87 MB
Vector TTF (round) chang-ban-dian-song-proportional-12px-round.ttf 9.38 MB
Vector TTF (square) chang-ban-dian-song-proportional-zh-Hans-16px-square.ttf 3.49 MB
Vector TTF (round) chang-ban-dian-song-proportional-zh-Hans-16px-round.ttf 13.54 MB
Web font (square) chang-ban-dian-song-monospaced-12px-square.woff2 661.6 KB
Web font (round) chang-ban-dian-song-monospaced-12px-round.woff2 457.6 KB
Web font (square) chang-ban-dian-song-monospaced-zh-Hant-17px-square.woff2 870.3 KB
Web font (round) chang-ban-dian-song-monospaced-zh-Hant-17px-round.woff2 713.0 KB
Web font (square) chang-ban-dian-song-proportional-12px-square.woff2 661.6 KB
Web font (round) chang-ban-dian-song-proportional-12px-round.woff2 457.6 KB
Web font (square) chang-ban-dian-song-proportional-zh-Hans-16px-square.woff2 875.3 KB
Web font (round) chang-ban-dian-song-proportional-zh-Hans-16px-round.woff2 715.0 KB

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