The traditional Chinese characters for thief: Eight above the upper eye on the left, Rong on the right.
Traditional Chinese characters, also known as Traditional Chinese.
Generally refers to the Chinese characters that were replaced by simplified characters during the Chinese character simplification movement. Sometimes it also refers 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 three thousand years, and until 1956 it was the standard Chinese character commonly used by Chinese people everywhere.
The "General List of Simplified Characters" actually contains 2274 simplified characters and 14 simplified radicals such as 讠[訁],饣[堠],纺[糹],钅[釒]. The sources of simplified characters include common characters, Ancient characters, cursive script, etc. also include merging Chinese characters, such as "hou" in "behind" and "hou" in "queen". In traditional Chinese characters, they are originally two characters. In order to omit strokes, the one with fewer strokes is unified. "After" was replaced.
Regions that still use traditional Chinese characters include China/Hong Kong/Macao/Taiwan/regions. Overseas Chinese communities such as Singapore and Malaysia mostly have traditional and simplified characters coexisting. In mainland China, in cultural relics, historical sites, and surnames with variant characters, Traditional Chinese characters should be retained or used in situations such as calligraphy, seal cutting, handwritten inscriptions, and special needs.
In January 2001, the "Law on Common Language and Characters" was implemented, which clearly stipulated that China should promote standardized Chinese characters and also clarified the scope of traditional Chinese characters. On June 5, 2013, the appendix "Comparison Table of Standardized Characters, Traditional Chinese Characters and Variant Characters" to the "General Standard Chinese Character Table" was published. The use of Chinese characters in general application fields shall be subject to the standard Chinese character table.
Traditional Chinese is the Chinese writing system that emerged after Xiaozhuan evolved into official script (later regular script, running script, cursive script and other calligraphy). It has a history of more than 2,000 years and has been the mainstay of Chinese people everywhere until the 20th century. Common Chinese writing standards in China.
The term "traditional Chinese characters" is only used when a character has a simplified character. If a Chinese character does not have a corresponding simplified character, it falls into the category of inherited characters. But at some point, Hong Kong/Macao/Taiwan/common fonts will be generally called "Traditional Chinese" or "Traditional Chinese"; my country's standardized Chinese characters (including simplified characters and unsimplified inherited characters) will be generally called is "Simplified Chinese" or "Simplified Chinese", but in fact this system uses the same characters as Taiwan/Province, Hong Kong/Special/Administrative Region, and Macao/Special/Administrative Region In addition to the differences between simplified and traditional Chinese characters themselves, the differences in the system are also largely due to different choices of variant characters and differences in font shapes. Therefore, "Simplified Chinese" does not necessarily have fewer strokes; some have more strokes than the former, such as " The word "strong". Affected by writing habits, some Chinese characters have also been merged in Taiwan/Taiwan, but the replaced characters can still be used as variants, and only a certain character item of the character has been replaced.