China's Ministry of Public Safety has issued new guidelines for baby names that exclude thousands of rare Chinese language characters.
China's Ministry of Public Safety has issued new guidelines guidelines,
n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. for baby names that exclude thousands of rare Chinese Chinese, subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages (see Sino-Tibetan languages), which is also sometimes grouped with the Tai, or Thai, languages in a Sinitic subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan language stock. language
characters. The rules are tied to the introduction of electronic
identity cards The electronic identity card (eID) is an official electronic proof of one's identity. It also enables the possibility to sign electronic documents with a legal signature. : Authorities can't write rare characters on ID cards
anymore, so they'll register only names included in the official
database.
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