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The debate on traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters is an ongoing dispute concerning Chinese orthography among users of Chinese characters. It has stirred up heated responses from supporters of both sides in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and among overseas Chinese communities with its implications of political ideology and cultural identity. [1]
Simplified Chinese characters are one of two standardized character sets widely used to write the Chinese language, with the other being traditional characters.Their mass standardization during the 20th century was part of an initiative by the People's Republic of China (PRC) to promote literacy, and their use in ordinary circumstances on the mainland has been encouraged by the Chinese ...
For example, in Japan, 必 is written with the top dot first, while the traditional stroke order writes the 丿 first. In the characters 王 and 玉, the vertical stroke is the third stroke in Chinese, but the second stroke in Japanese. Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau use traditional characters, though with an altered stroke order.
A Chinese character set (simplified Chinese: 汉字字符集; traditional Chinese: 中文字元集; pinyin: hànzì zìfú jí) is a group of Chinese characters. Since the size of a set is the number of elements in it, an introduction to Chinese character sets will also introduce the Chinese character numbers in them.
Zhonghua Zihai (simplified Chinese: 中 华 字 海; traditional Chinese: 中 華 字 海; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Zìhǎi) is the largest Chinese character dictionary available for print, compiled in 1994 and consisting of 85,568 different characters. [1] [2] [3] [4]
寧 ⇄ 宁, 宁 ⇄ 㝉:; 薴 ⇄ 苧, 苧 ⇄ 苎: 薴 níng is simplified to 苧 which is the traditional character for zhù that in turn is simplified to 苎.; 甚 ⇄ 甚什, 什 ⇄ 甚什: 甚 shèn (extremely, exceed) and 什 shí (ten, various) are the same in both simplified and traditional, while shén (what) is written 甚 in traditional and 什 in simplified (and also as a variant ...
In the past, traditional Chinese was most often encoded on computers using the Big5 standard, which favored traditional characters. However, the ubiquitous Unicode standard gives equal weight to simplified and traditional Chinese characters, and has become by far the most popular encoding for Chinese-language text.
On 5 June 2013, the State Council of the People's Republic of China announced the List of Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters with Appendix 1 of Table of Comparison between Standard, Traditional and Variant Chinese Characters, which was built upon the General List of Simplified Chinese Characters among some other related character lists ...