Dividing Lines of Text in Chinese

The Chinese language uses the same line-breaking rule as the Japanese language does. A line cannot end with any leading characters, which are listed below.

Traditional Chinese (characters are shown with their hexadecimal code point for the Chinese-BIG5 CharSet)

0028 A165 A173 A1A3
               
005B A167 A175 A1A5
               
007B A169 A177 A1A7
               
A15D A16B A179 A1A9
               
A15F A16D A17B A1AB
               
A161 A16F A17D    
               
A163 A171 A1A1    


Simplified Chinese (characters are shown with their hexadecimal code point for the GB-2312 CharSet)

0028 A1B6 A3B0 A3B7
               
005B A1B8 A3B1 A3B8
               
007B A1BA A3B2 A3B9
               
A1AE A1BC A3B3 A3DB
               
A1B0 A1BE A3B4 A3FB
               
A1B2 A3A8 A3B5    
               
A1B4 A3AE A3B6    


A line cannot begin with any following characters, which are listed below.

Traditional Chinese (characters are shown with their hexadecimal code point for the Chinese-BIG5 CharSet)

0021 A147 A156 A16E
               
0029 A148 A157 A170
               
002C A149 A158 A172
               
002E A14A A159 A174
               
003A A14B A15A A176
               
003B A14C A15B A178
               
003F A14D A15C A17A
               
005D A14E A15E A17C
               
007D A14F A160 A17E
               
A141 A150 A162 A1A2
               
A142 A151 A164 A1A4
               
A143 A152 A166 A1A6
               
A144 A153 A168 A1A8
               
A145 A154 A16A A1AA
               
A146 A155 A16C A1AC


Simplified Chinese (characters are shown with their hexadecimal code point for the GB-2312 CharSet)

0021 A1A4 A1B1 A3A7
               
0029 A1A5 A1B3 A3A9
               
002C A1A6 A1B5 A3AC
               
002E A1A7 A1B7 A3AE
               
003A A1A8 A1B9 A3BA
               
003B A1A9 A1BB A3BB
               
003F A1AA A1BD A3BF
               
005D A1AB A1BF A3DD
               
007D A1AC A1C3 A3E0
               
A1A2 A1AD A3A1 A3FC
               
A1A3 A1AF A3A2 A3FD


The following overflow characters are allowed to extend past the right margin:

Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese (characters are shown with their hexadecimal code points, which are the same for the Chinese-BIG5 CharSet and the GB-2312 CharSet)

0021 003B
       
0029 003F
       
002C 005D
       
002E 007D
       
003A