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"Unihan variants" are alternates of characters belonging to the "Unified Han," or "Unihan," section of the Unicode standard. So-called Han characters have been used across East Asia for milennia. Over time and across regions, different forms of the same character have arisen and persisted. As recently as the 20th century, new forms of these characters have been invented and used. Accounting for these unihan variants has been one significant challenge for the Unicode project. The Unicode project has tried to incorporate significant variants for characters, and it maintains a list of variants for each character in the Unicode standard. This list is not exhaustive, and others have compiled more exhaustive lists. Many variants are not simply historical forms but are used daily by users of East Asian languages. Still, today's software rarely lets users work with variants—displaying variants for a given character, replacing a given character with a variant. In FACT, users have to be able to enter each character using each language's input methods. Here is one example of a character with 5 variants. The Unihan Variant Dictionary allows a user to enter any character and receive a list of corresponding variants. Users can then copy any variant from the list. Holding the mouse over any variant displays its unicode value. The Dictionary is also a quick reference to other information, including characters' pronunciation in various languages and dialects, and definition. While this information is all available in various forms on the Unicode website, the official Unicode list of variants is not exhaustive. The Unihan Variant Dictionary has reached to other sources of variants to give users the widest possible selection of variants.

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