Simplified Chinese characters are fonts produced after the 1950s when the People's Republic of China and the Chinese government simplified Chinese characters on the basis of traditional Chinese characters. This also resulted in the symmetry of traditional Chinese characters, which refers to the way the characters were written before simplification. For the same Chinese character, simplified characters have fewer strokes than traditional characters. Simplified characters are a form of standardized Chinese characters in mainland China today. However, there are also many Chinese characters in traditional Chinese characters that have not been simplified, such as: "If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools." These Chinese characters are called inherited characters, and they are neither traditional characters nor simplified characters.
Simplification method
The current standardized Chinese characters are not completely produced in accordance with the traditional Chinese character rules of the Six Books. Instead, the following method is adopted:
Replace the original radicals with simple symbols.
Examples: Right (right), Deng (Deng), Guan (view), Huan (huan), Sigh (sigh, sigh), Difficult (difficult), Chicken (chicken), Nie (Nie) , Feng (phoenix), Gang (gan, gang), Feng (wind)
Omit part of the glyph.
Examples: Guang (Guang), Kua (Kuai), Mie (annihilation), Xi (Xi), Ning (Ning), 伐 (伐)
Omit part of the glyph Then, deform it.
Examples: 女 (女), 丽 (丽), gui (gui), 兴 (show), 武 (事), kuán (wide)
Adopt the outline of traditional Chinese characters Characteristics.
Examples: Fei (fly), turtle (turtle), tooth (teeth), seize (seize), door (door)
Cursive script in regular script.
Examples: 书 (书), 长 (长), 乐 (乐), 车 (车), 头 (头), 兴 (兴), 发 (发)
If the same sound or near sound is substituted, Mandarin shall prevail.
Examples: Gu (谷), Chou (ugly), Hou (后), Zhi (only), Qian (干, dry, dry)
Newly created knowing words.
Examples: Zao (烃), Ti (body), Chen (dust), Yan (rock)
Use ancient characters with fewer strokes.
Examples: tears (tears), Cong (cong), Yun (clouds), net (net), and (和), Jie (Jack)
Use those with fewer strokes Ancient characters, then transformed.
Example: Yi (different)
Use variant characters with fewer strokes.
Examples: cat (cat), raccoon dog (racoon), nephew (nephew)
Change the phonetic characters of the phonetic characters.
Examples: die (die), wax (wax), bell (bell), clean (clean), neighbor (neighbor)
Newly formed pictophonetic characters.
Examples: protect (protect), scare (shock), skin (skin), ship (ship), art (art), ring (ring), Hua (hua)
Radical analogies
Reconstruct using simplified radicals:
Page (page): Yan (face), jaw (chin), Shun (shun), forehead (forehead)
Specialized (specialized): Chuan (passed), Zhuan (zhuan), Zhuan (brick)
Xue (learned): Jue (awed), 黉 (鉉)
< p>Choice (choose): Yi (translation), Ze (ze), Ze (choice), Yi (驿)Note that some analogies are not consistent, such as:
Difficult (Difficult): Han (Han), sigh (sigh, sigh), beach (tan), paralysis (paralysis), stall (tan), but
Huan (huan), persuade (persuad), watch (Guan), Quan (Quan); (However, "Guan" is not simplified.)
Only (only); chicken (chicken); Deng (Deng); right (right); play (play) ;
Tree (tree). (However, "chu" is abbreviated as "chu", while "捍" is not simplified.)
Lu (鲁): 鸬 (鸬), skull (skull), bastard (bass), but
p>Lu (furnace), donkey (donkey), Lu (lu).
Tang (Soup): Yang (Yang), Chang (Chang), Shang (Shang), Yang (Yang), but
Yang (Yang); Shang (injury); Dang (dang).
门(门): boring (boring), asking (asking), smelling (smelling), but
open (open), closing (closing), Xian (Xian, Xian) );
Noisy (noisy), evil (evil). (However, "dou" is simply shortened to "dou".)
With (与): Yu (岛), 椤 (椤), but
Yu (honour), Ju ( Lift, lift). (However, "Xing" is the simplified form of "Xing".)
Evaluation
There have always been two completely opposing views on the simplification of Chinese characters. In recent years, reflections and debates on the simplification of Chinese characters have begun to heat up.
Those who agree with the simplification of Chinese characters believe that:
1. From oracle bone inscriptions to regular script, Chinese characters have been continuously simplified in the process of evolution. In addition to mainland China, countries such as Singapore and Malaysia are simplifying Chinese characters, which is a general trend.
2. The simplified characters prescribed by mainland China are basically derived from writing methods that have been circulated among the people, some of which come from ancient scripts and are not created out of thin air.
3. The simplification of Chinese characters reduces the number of strokes and characters in Chinese characters, thereby reducing the difficulty of learning Chinese characters and speeding up writing, which is conducive to popularization of education and the elimination of variant characters in traditional Chinese. People communicate.
4. Publishing houses specializing in publishing ancient classics such as Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House and Zhonghua Book Company in mainland China usually use traditional Chinese, and traditional Chinese classics are easy to find.
5. Most mainland Chinese who are educated in simplified characters do not have obvious comprehension difficulties when reading traditional Chinese characters.
6. In digital devices such as computers, mobile phones, and PDAs, the text size is limited. Simplified Chinese characters have simpler strokes and are displayed more clearly.
The objections mainly focus on:
1. After the simplification of Chinese characters, it is not conducive to the inheritance of China’s five thousand years of traditional culture. After the promotion of simplified Chinese characters, many modern Chinese people cannot Then read the ancient classics directly