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Chinese → Traditional Chinese Characters

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Traditional Chinese characters, a font form of Chinese characters, are called "traditional Chinese characters" in Europe and America. Generally speaking, it refers to the Chinese characters replaced by simplified characters in the Chinese character simplification movement, and sometimes it refers to the whole Chinese character regular script and official script writing system before the Chinese character simplification movement.

Traditional Chinese has a history of more than two thousand years. Until 1956, it was the standard Chinese character used by Chinese people all over the world. A total of 2274 simplified words and 14 simplified word radicals, such as "Ni Yue", "Yue", "Yue" and "Yue", were collected in the Summary of Simplified Words.

For example, the word "Hou" and the word "Hou" of "Queen" were originally two words in traditional Chinese characters, but in order to omit strokes, they were uniformly replaced by the word "Hou" with fewer strokes.

Traditional Chinese characters are still used in Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and most overseas Chinese communities such as Singapore and Malaysia are traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters. In Chinese mainland, in the case of cultural relics, variant surnames, calligraphy seal cutting, handwritten inscriptions and special needs, traditional Chinese characters are retained or used.

200 1 1 The implementation of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Common Languages and Characters clearly stipulates the promotion of standardized Chinese characters in China, and also clarifies the scope of traditional Chinese characters. On June 5th, 20 13, the schedule of Chinese Characters for General Norms, Comparison Table of Standardized Characters, Traditional Characters and Variant Characters was published. The use of Chinese characters in general application field shall be subject to the Standard Chinese Character List.

Traditional Chinese characters, that is, the writing system of Chinese characters produced after the evolution of Xiao Zhuan into official script (followed by regular script, running script, cursive script, etc.). ), which has a history of more than 2000 years, has been a common Chinese writing standard for Chinese people all over the world until the 20th century.

Since the 1950' s, the people of China and the government of China have simplified the traditional Chinese characters and formed a new Chinese writing standard, namely simplified Chinese. Simplified Chinese is mainly composed of inherited characters and simplified characters introduced by China people and the Central People's Government after 1960s.

Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Chinese mainland and Southeast Asia (such as Malaysia and Singapore), while traditional Chinese is mainly used in Taiwan Province Province, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao Special Administrative Region of China.