
In modern China, the government uses the new orthographic style, which is incorporated into MingLiU version 5.03 or above. After the postwar in Japan, the most of the Kangxi style characters were considered as Kyujitai, causing newer dictionaries to incorporate two letter styles, or to simply reject the old styles. The styling of the strokes used in the old Song and Ming fonts came from the style used in Kangxi dictionary. Some of those differences are caused by character simplification or word choices, while others are purely orthographic differences such as stroke styling. Often there are number of different ways to write the same Chinese character, they are collectively referred to as variant Chinese characters. Possessing variable line weight and characteristic decorations at the end of lines similar to serifs, this type style is comparable to Western serif typefaces, as opposed to the which are comparable to sans-serif. These characteristics are visible in the example above. * Triangular ornaments at the end of single horizontal strokes called ''uroko'' in Japanese * Thick vertical strokes contrasted with thin horizontal strokes This typeface is characterised, among other things, by the following: In Mainland China, the most common name is "Song typefaces." In Hong Kong, Japan and Korea, "Ming typefaces" is prevalent. The two names of the type style correspond to the two dynasties in Chinese history, the Song Dynasty during which it was created and the Ming Dynasty, during which the style flourished. They are currently the most used style of type in print for Chinese and Japanese. Ming typefaces, known as Song typefaces in mainland China, are a category of typefaces used to display Chinese characters, which are used in the, , and languages.
