WenQuanYi Bitmap Song

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A classic Chinese bitmap Song (Ming) typeface for Linux, in five sizes from 12 to 16px, with GB18030-level coverage.

Variant size table

Variants Nominal size Han ink box Max ink extents
wenquanyi_9pt-12px 12 px 11×11 12×16
wenquanyi_10pt-13px 13 px 12×12 13×16
wenquanyi_13px-14px 14 px 13×13 15×18
wenquanyi_11pt-15px 15 px 14×14 15×16
wenquanyi_12pt-16px 16 px 15×16 16×16
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Metrics

Nominal size 12 px
Han ink box 11×11
Cap height 8
x-height 6
Max ink extents 12×16
Ascent / Descent 16 / 2
Font bounding box 23, 18, 0, -2
Spacing Monospaced
Advance width distribution 2px×6 4px×18 5px×10 6px×85 7px×22 8px×24 9px×8 12px×29987
Nominal box 12×12 Han ink (median) 11×11 Max ink 12×16

Character coverage

Overview

Encoded characters 30,163 / 297,264 10.15%
BMP 30,163 / 62,089 48.58%
Compatibility Ideographs * 348 / 1002 34.73%
Private Use Areas (PUA) · BMP PUA 366 / 6,400 5.72%
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) 9,748 / 9,810 99.37%
Unihan Core 2020 18,812 / 20,720 90.79%
Windows Glyph List 4 375 / 650 57.69%
Basic Latin 95 / 95 100% ✓ Complete
Latin-1 Supplement 64 / 96 66.67%
Latin Extended-A 0 / 128 0.00%
Latin Extended-B 0 / 208 0.00%
Cyrillic Everyday Characters 66 / 97 68.04%
Greek Everyday Characters 48 / 72 66.67%
Arabic Everyday Characters 0 / 92 0.00%
Thai Everyday Characters 0 / 87 0.00%
Vietnamese Latin 68 / 186 36.56%
IBM Code Page 437 207 / 255 81.18%
Box Drawing 117 / 128 91.41%
Block Elements 20 / 32 62.50%
Powerline Symbols 0 / 41 0.00%
Braille Patterns 0 / 256 0.00%

CJK character map

CJK unified ideographs Unicode 17 27,530 / 101,996
Selected CJK, without duplicates 14,910 / 26,28156.7%
CJK character map Schematic overlaps; areas are not proportional to character counts. Taiwan · Common/Less-common Traditional Han: 11,151 / 11,151; Mainland China · General Simplified Han: 7,906 / 8,105; Japan · JIS X 0208 Level 1: 2,965 / 2,965; Korea · KS X 1001 unified Han: 4,620 / 4,620. Simp Trad Shared: 4,899 / 4,899. Taiwan · Common/Less-common Traditional Han 11,151 / 11,151 100% Common 4,808 / 4,808 Mainland China · General Simplified Han 7,906 / 8,105 97.5% 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 4,620 / 4,620 100%
Taiwan · Common/Less-common Traditional Han11,151 / 11,151 100% Common 4,808 / 4,808
Mainland China · General Simplified Han7,906 / 8,105 97.5% Level 1 3,500 / 3,500
Japan · JIS X 0208 Level 12,965 / 2,965 100%
Korea · KS X 1001 unified Han4,620 / 4,620 100%
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han4,899 / 4,899
Hiragana & Katakana 171 / 171 100% Other kana 4 / 408
Hangul syllables 0 / 11,172 0% KS X 1001 syllables 0 / 2,350
Hangul Jamo, with extensions 62 / 451
Basic Bopomofo 37 / 37 100% Other Bopomofo 4 / 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 4,294 / 4,294100%
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 14,158 / 14,35798.6%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han ∪ Japanese Kanji 14,495 / 14,69498.6%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han ∪ Korean Han 14,418 / 14,61798.6%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han ∪ Japanese Kanji ∪ Korean Han 14,702 / 14,90198.7%
Traditional Han only 4,638 / 4,638100%
Simplified Han only 2,829 / 3,02893.4%
Japanese Kanji only 284 / 284100%
Korean Han only 207 / 207100%

Reference tables: Unicode 17 · FontPixel

CJK character totals

CJK unified ideographs 27,530 / 101,996 26.99%
Selected CJK, without duplicates 14,910 / 26,281 56.73%

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 20,918 / 20,923 99.98%
GB/T 12345 Traditional Hanzi 6,865 / 6,866 99.99%
GB 18030-2022 Implementation Level 3 27,757 / 88,115 31.50%
GB 18030-2022 Implementation Level 2 27,543 / 27,780 99.15%
GB 18030-2022 Implementation Level 1 27,543 / 27,584 99.85%

Simplified Chinese · Language standards

Table of General Standard Chinese Characters 7,906 / 8,105 97.54%
General Standard Chinese Characters Level 1 3,500 / 3,500 100% ✓ Complete
General Standard Chinese Characters Level 2 2,997 / 3,000 99.90%
General Standard Chinese Characters Level 3 1,409 / 1,605 87.79%
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 13,338 / 14,250 93.60%
Kangxi Radicals 214 / 214 100% ✓ Complete
CJK Radicals Supplement 57 / 115 49.57%
Hanyi Simplified & Traditional Set 9,169 / 9,169 100% ✓ Complete
FounderType Simplified & Traditional Set 9,632 / 9,664 99.67%

Traditional Chinese · Taiwan

Taiwan common and less-common Han (total) 11,151 / 11,151 100% ✓ Complete
Standard Forms of Common National Characters 4,808 / 4,808 100% ✓ Complete
Standard Forms of Less-Common National Characters 6,343 / 6,343 100% ✓ Complete
Big5 All Hanzi 13,053 / 13,053 100% ✓ Complete
Big5 Frequently Used Hanzi 5,401 / 5,401 100% ✓ Complete
Big5 Less Frequently Used Hanzi 7,652 / 7,652 100% ✓ Complete
Basic Bopomofo 37 / 37 100% ✓ Complete
Other Bopomofo 4 / 38 10.53%

Traditional Chinese · Hong Kong

List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters 4,762 / 4,762 100% ✓ Complete
Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set Hanzi 2,888 / 4,603 62.74%
Hong Kong Supplementary Characters in Common Use 966 / 1,102 87.66%

Japanese

JIS X 0208 Non-Kanji 510 / 524 97.33%
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 1,234 / 1,260 97.94%
JIS X 0213 Level 4 Kanji 2,119 / 2,397 88.40%
Joyo Kanji 2,135 / 2,136 99.95%
Kyoiku Kanji 1,026 / 1,026 100% ✓ Complete
Jinmeiyo Kanji 864 / 864 100% ✓ Complete
Hiragana & Katakana (JIS X 0208, with ー・) 171 / 171 100% ✓ Complete
Hiragana 83 / 83 100% ✓ Complete
Katakana 86 / 86 100% ✓ Complete
Other kana 4 / 408 0.98%
Other Hiragana and Katakana block characters 4 / 18 22.22%
Kana extensions 0 / 327 0.00%
Halfwidth Katakana 0 / 63 0.00%
JIS X 0201 95 / 158 60.13%

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) 4,888 / 4,888 100% ✓ Complete
KS X 1001 unified Han 4,620 / 4,620 100% ✓ Complete
KS X 1001 compatibility Han 268 / 268 100% ✓ Complete
KS X 1001 Symbols 675 / 987 68.39%
Hangul Jamo, with extensions 62 / 451 13.75%
Hangul Compatibility Jamo 35 / 94 37.23%
Hangul Jamo · base block 27 / 256 10.55%
Hangul Jamo extensions A and B 0 / 101 0.00%
Unicode blocks(38)
Basic Latin 97 / 128 75.78%
Latin-1 Supplement 65 / 128 50.78%
IPA Extensions 90 / 96 93.75%
Spacing Modifier Letters 6 / 80 7.50%
Greek and Coptic 48 / 134 35.82%
Cyrillic 66 / 256 25.78%
Hangul Jamo 27 / 256 10.55%
General Punctuation 17 / 111 15.32%
Currency Symbols 1 / 34 2.94%
Letterlike Symbols 4 / 80 5.00%
Number Forms 30 / 60 50.00%
Arrows 91 / 112 81.25%
Mathematical Operators 230 / 256 89.84%
Miscellaneous Technical 1 / 256 0.39%
Enclosed Alphanumerics 57 / 160 35.63%
Box Drawing 117 / 128 91.41%
Block Elements 20 / 32 62.50%
Geometric Shapes 20 / 96 20.83%
Miscellaneous Symbols 23 / 256 8.98%
CJK Radicals Supplement 57 / 115 49.57%
Kangxi Radicals 214 / 214 100%
Ideographic Description Characters 12 / 16 75.00%
CJK Symbols and Punctuation 54 / 64 84.38%
Hiragana 87 / 93 93.55%
Katakana 88 / 96 91.67%
Bopomofo 41 / 43 95.35%
Hangul Compatibility Jamo 35 / 94 37.23%
Kanbun 14 / 16 87.50%
CJK Strokes 36 / 39 92.31%
Enclosed CJK Letters and Months 72 / 255 28.24%
CJK Compatibility 49 / 256 19.14%
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A 6,582 / 6,592 99.85%
CJK Unified Ideographs 20,940 / 20,992 99.75%
Private Use Area 366 / 6,400 5.72%
CJK Compatibility Ideographs 356 / 472 75.42%
CJK Compatibility Forms 27 / 32 84.38%
Small Form Variants 25 / 26 96.15%
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms 98 / 225 43.56%

Glyph overview

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Downloads

wenquanyi_9pt-12px BDF 652.8 KB PCF 674.4 KB
wenquanyi_10pt-13px BDF 717.3 KB PCF 725.8 KB
wenquanyi_13px-14px BDF 541.7 KB PCF 559.8 KB
wenquanyi_11pt-15px BDF 851.8 KB PCF 850.6 KB
wenquanyi_12pt-16px BDF 880.2 KB PCF 878.1 KB
Full family BDF ZIP wqy-bitmap-song.zip 3.69 MB
Bitmap TTF wqy-bitmap-song-monospaced.ttf 4.14 MB
Bitmap TTF wqy-bitmap-song-proportional.ttf 896.2 KB
Vector TTF (square) wqy-bitmap-song-monospaced-16px-square.ttf 7.25 MB
Vector TTF (square) wqy-bitmap-song-proportional-14px-square.ttf 4.88 MB
Web font (square) wqy-bitmap-song-monospaced-16px-square.woff2 1.54 MB
Web font (square) wqy-bitmap-song-proportional-14px-square.woff2 1.09 MB

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