Introduction of Inherited Characters

Inherited characters in the broader sense are Chinese characters that have been passed down through history (mainly in the regular script after the change of the official script) and are still in use today, with a history of more than 2,000 years; for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, the term "inherited characters" means traditional Chinese characters in use; in the narrower sense, they refer to Chinese characters that have not been simplified by the General List of Simplified Chinese Characters (GLSC), which is currently the main standardized Chinese character used in mainland China. The main standardized Chinese characters currently in use mainly consist of simplified and unsimplified legacy characters (but with new glyphs). The General List of Simplified Chinese Characters contains 2,274 simplified characters and 14 simplified radicals such as ? [颱], 饣[飠], 纟[糹], and 钅[釒], which have streamlined the number of characters in the Chinese character system (a number of characters have been merged in the course of their simplification, for example, grain for rice and valley for valleys). (Many characters were merged when they were "simplified", e.g. Gu (谷) for "rice" and Gu (山谷) for "valley", which were originally two characters) and the strokes of many characters. For example, the phrase "To do a good job, one must first sharpen one's tools" has remained unchanged for thousands of years, and is all inherited characters (not taking into account the rare and unusual characters). Strictly speaking, the term "traditional Chinese characters" is only used when there is a simplified version of a character, and if there is no simplified version of a Chinese character, it belongs to the category of inherited characters. However, in some cases, fonts commonly used in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan are generally referred to as "traditional Chinese" or "traditional Chinese", while mainland standardized Chinese characters (including simplified and unsimplified inherited characters) are generally referred to as "simplified Chinese" or "simplified Chinese". "or "Simplified Chinese".