
Some type foundries use "Song" to refer to this style of typeface that follows a standard such as the Standard Form of National Characters, and “Ming” to refer to typefaces that resemble forms found in the Kangxi dictionary. In Hong Kong and Taiwan, “ Song typeface” ( 宋体) has been used but “ Ming typeface” ( 明體) has increased currency since the advent of desktop publishing. In Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Korea, Ming is prevalent. In Mainland China, the most common name is Song (the Mainland Chinese standardized Ming typeface in Microsoft Windows being named SimSun). The names Song (or Sung) and Ming correspond to the Song Dynasty when a distinctive printed style of regular script was developed, and the Ming Dynasty during which that style developed into the Ming typeface style. They are currently the most common style of type in print for Chinese and Japanese.

Ming or Song is a category of typefaces used to display Chinese characters, which are used in the Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.You should also add the template to the talk page.A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Chinese Wikipedia article at ] see its history for attribution. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation.If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality.Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.View a machine-translated version of the Chinese article.

You can use gbsn or gkai fonts for Simplified characters, and bsmi or bkai for Traditional characters.


In this environment UTF8 is the encoding and gbsn is the font to be used. To set a specific font for elements that use a sans serif font style use \setCJKsansfont environment. Additional fonts for some parts of the document can be configured.
