The traditional Chinese character for pocket: 兠.
1. Traditional Chinese characters
Traditional Chinese characters, a font form of Chinese characters, are called "Traditional Chinese" in European and American countries. They generally refer to the simplified Chinese character simplification movement. The Chinese characters that the characters replace sometimes refer to the entire Chinese regular script and official script writing systems before the Chinese character simplification movement. Traditional Chinese has a history of more than two thousand years, and until 1956 it was the standard Chinese character commonly used by Chinese people everywhere.
Regions that still use traditional Chinese characters include Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Overseas Chinese communities such as Singapore and Malaysia mostly use traditional and simplified characters. In mainland China, in cultural relics and monuments, variant characters of surnames, calligraphy and seal cutting, handwritten inscriptions, special needs, etc. Keep or use traditional Chinese characters. In January 2001, the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the National Standard Spoken and Written Language" was implemented, which clearly stipulated that China should promote standardized Chinese characters and also clarified the scope of traditional Chinese characters.
2. Simplified Chinese characters
Simplified Chinese characters, that is, simplified characters, refer to the original complex structure and many strokes. Later, people transformed and simplified it during use, and thus came to be The resulting Chinese characters with simple strokes and simple structures are simplified traditional Chinese characters and replace traditional Chinese characters with simple stroke structures.
Simplified Chinese characters are usually equated with the current Chinese character system (standardized Chinese characters) in mainland China. However, in fact, the difference between this system and the character systems in Taiwan, Hong Kong SAR, and Macao SAR is that the simplified and traditional Chinese characters themselves are different. In addition to the difference, a large part of it is due to the different choice of variant characters and the difference in font shapes, so "Simplified Chinese" does not necessarily have fewer strokes; some have more strokes than the former.
Affected by writing habits, some Chinese characters have also been merged in Taiwan, such as "only" instead of "only". However, the substituted word can still be used as a variant, and only a certain item of the word is replaced. This is a spontaneous adjustment within the Chinese character system and is different from the official practice in mainland China. There are slight differences in the writing methods of some commonly used traditional Chinese characters between Taiwan and Hong Kong and Macao.