Variant: refers to words with the same sound and meaning but different forms. Especially those characters that are not popular and have more strokes, and are eliminated in the process of sorting out the current Chinese characters, as opposed to "standardized characters".
The "vulgar style", "ancient style" and "or style" of the same word can be collectively referred to as variants, and sometimes there are as many as five or six variants in a group, such as "window,, and". The main reasons for the formation of variant characters are: using different methods to create words, such as "wave", "combination" (sound and shape)-"tears" and "emotion"; Change the shape or sound, such as "lip"-"lip", "vent"-"vent"; Move the parts around you, such as "enough", "enough", "chess" and so on. Variant characters are redundant parts of Chinese characters, and their existence is not conducive to the standardization of Chinese characters, so they should be sorted out. 1955 The First List of Variant Characters published by the state lists 8 10 groups of variant characters with * * 1865 words. After sorting, the characters with long passage time, wide use range and simple strokes in each group are defined as standard characters, and the rest are variant characters to be abolished, with a total of * * * deletions. A few abolished variants can still be used for proper names, such as "Xian"-"Xian", "Ben"-"Ben" and "Tong"-"Tong", and "Yi"-"Nong" and "Long" in place names.
Source of knowledge: Zhang Qingyuan. Dictionary of modern Chinese knowledge. Chengdu: Sichuan People's Publishing House. 1990. Page 109.
Traditional Chinese characters: refers to the shape of the same character with more strokes, that is, the characters of the old font as opposed to the simplified characters specified in the summary of simplified characters.
For example, "buy", "guarantee" and "country" are traditional Chinese characters corresponding to "buy", "guarantee" and "country" respectively. Without corresponding simplified characters, words with many strokes are not called traditional Chinese characters. The existence of traditional Chinese characters makes it difficult to read, write and remember Chinese characters, and simplified Chinese characters should be replaced. Summary of Simplified Chinese Characters, published in May 1964, simplified 2264 traditional Chinese characters, and the strokes of simplified Chinese characters were reduced by nearly half compared with the original traditional Chinese characters, which was widely welcomed. At present, the simplified Chinese characters published by the state have become the standard form of Chinese characters. We advocate newspapers and other publications, film and television subtitles, trademarks, advertisements, signs and so on. All the standardized simplified characters officially published by the state are used, and the abuse of traditional characters is not advocated. At present, traditional Chinese characters are still widely used in Taiwan Province Province, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and overseas Chinese. We also need to sort out and publish China ancient books in traditional Chinese characters, and create calligraphy and seal cutting works. Traditional Chinese characters and standardized simplified Chinese characters will exist for some time, and they should be allowed to evolve according to the law of historical development, rather than simplified. See Simplified Chinese Characters and Simplified Chinese Character Summary.
Source of knowledge: Zhang Qingyuan. Dictionary of modern Chinese knowledge. Chengdu: Sichuan People's Publishing House. 1990. Page 12 1.