1, traditional Chinese characters
At present, Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan still use traditional Chinese characters, while overseas Chinese communities such as Singapore and Malaysia mostly use traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters. In Chinese mainland, traditional Chinese characters are preserved or used in the case of cultural relics, surnames, calligraphy seal cutting, handwritten inscriptions and special needs.
200 1 1 The implementation of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Common Language and Characters clearly stipulates the promotion and standardization of Chinese characters in China, and also clearly stipulates the scope of retaining or using traditional Chinese characters. On June 5th, 20 13, the State Council, China published the List of General Standardized Chinese Characters, including schedules of standardized Chinese characters, traditional Chinese characters and variant Chinese characters. The use of Chinese characters in general application fields is subject to the Standard Chinese Character List.
2. Variant characters
Variant characters are a group of words with the same pronunciation and meaning but different glyphs.
Because Chinese characters are composed of signifiers, notes and symbols, the angle of choosing signifiers varies from person to person, and the notes are different from the letters in Pinyin, so the phenomenon of multiple forms of one word can be found everywhere in the history of Chinese characters.
1955 The Ministry of Culture and the Cultural Reform Commission jointly issued the first list of variant characters, which stipulated 8 10 regular characters and eliminated 1055 variant characters according to the principle of simplicity and vulgarity. Variant characters are nonstandard characters, which are no longer used except surnames and some special occasions.
Extended data:
The Law on National Common Language and Characters promulgated in June, 5438+October, 2000/KLOC-0 established the legal status of Putonghua and standardized Chinese characters as the national common language and characters for the first time, which marked that China's language and characters work entered the legal track and entered a new historical stage of administration according to law.
The Chinese Characters List of General Norms follows the objective laws of the development and application of Chinese characters, and summarizes, inherits and promotes the policies and norms of Chinese characters since the founding of New China. It is a new starting point and new development of Chinese character norms in the information age, and it is a major Chinese character norm that adapts to the changes of social language life under the new situation.
Its promulgation and implementation provides a basic policy basis for fully implementing the national language policies and regulations and managing social language life according to law, and will certainly be conducive to the standardization and development of Chinese characters, the progress of education, culture and science and technology, the international spread of Chinese, and the national information construction.
"Promoting and standardizing the use of the national common language" is a clear requirement put forward by the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Article 17 of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on the Common Language and Characters stipulates the circumstances in which traditional Chinese characters and variant Chinese characters are allowed to be retained or used:
1, cultural relics;
2. Variants in surnames;
3. Calligraphy, seal cutting and other works of art;
4. Handwritten inscriptions and signboards;
5, publishing, teaching and scientific research need to use;
6 special circumstances approved by the relevant departments of the State Council.
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