Traditional Chinese characters, a font form of Chinese characters, are called "traditional Chinese characters" in Europe and America, generally referring to Chinese characters replaced by simplified characters in the Chinese character simplification movement.
Sometimes it also refers to the whole writing system of regular script and official script 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 Yi [Yi], Xun [Qi], Yi [Yi], Cheng [Cheng], etc., have been collected in the Summary of Simplified Words, and the sources of simplified words include commonly used words.
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 5, 20 13, the comparison table of standardized characters, traditional characters and variant characters in the schedule of the General Standardized Chinese Characters Table was published, and the Chinese characters used in general application fields shall be subject to the Standardized Chinese Characters Table.
In the history of China, from ancient times to the Western Han Dynasty, there were significant differences between the official standard fonts and modern traditional Chinese characters. It was not until the official script prevailing in the Eastern Han Dynasty appeared in the Qin Dynasty that it was closer to the modern traditional Chinese characters. Compared with all kinds of simplified characters used spontaneously by the people, the standardized Chinese characters promulgated by the court through compiling the "character book" have official authority.
However, seal script is still used in the imperial seals and official seals at all levels used in various dynasties after Qin Dynasty. Simplified characters were formulated and implemented in Chinese mainland from 65438 to 0956. Since then, simplified Chinese characters have become the standard Chinese characters in Chinese mainland. Traditional Chinese characters are traditional Chinese characters relative to simplified Chinese characters.