Traditional Chinese character conversion

Traditional Chinese characters can be converted into simplified characters through traditional Chinese character converters, apps such as Kingsoft PowerWord, or websites such as Baidu.

Traditional Chinese characters, a font form of Chinese characters, are called "Traditional Chinese" in European and American countries. They generally refer to Chinese characters that have been replaced by simplified characters during the simplification movement of Chinese characters. Sometimes they also refer to simplified Chinese characters. The entire Chinese regular script and official script writing system before the 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.

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. In Chinese history, from ancient times to the Western Han Dynasty, there were significant differences between the official standard fonts and the modern traditional fonts. It was not until the Qin Dynasty that the official script popular in the Eastern Han Dynasty appeared, which was closer to the modern traditional Chinese font.

The standardized Chinese characters promulgated by successive imperial courts through the compilation of "Character Books" have official authority over the various simplified characters used spontaneously by the people. However, the jade seals and official seals at all levels used by the dynasties after the Qin Dynasty still used the seal script.