Chart of Chinese Character Encodings: Big5

This chart shows the Big5 encoding, which is the encoding used for this page. In this encoding, the first character is a printable ASCII character with 128 added to its code; the second character, however, may or may not have 128 added, to allow more available codes. Only the characters from @ to ~ are used in the characters without 128 added, thus adding 63 characters to the usual 94 possibilities for the second character. The ordering treats the first character as most significant, and the code proceeds from second characters without 128 added to second characters with 128 added for each first character. (Alternatively, some codings treat the presence of the 128 as the most significant part of the coding, splitting it up into several 94 by 94 pages.)