The meaning of traditional Chinese characters:
Traditional Chinese characters, a font form of Chinese characters, are called "traditional Chinese characters" in Europe and America. Generally speaking, it refers to the Chinese characters replaced by simplified characters in the Chinese character simplification movement, and sometimes it refers to the whole Chinese character regular script and official script writing system 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.
The Summary of Simplified Chinese Characters contains 2274 simplified Chinese characters and 14 simplified Chinese character radicals, such as Zhu, Zhu, Zhu and Cheng. The sources of simplified characters include common characters.
The use of traditional Chinese characters:
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 5th, 20 13, the schedule of Chinese Characters for General Norms, Comparison Table of Standardized Characters, Traditional Characters and Variant Characters was published. The use of Chinese characters in general application field shall be subject to the Standard Chinese Character List.
The origin of traditional Chinese characters:
Traditional Chinese characters, that is, the writing system of Chinese characters produced after the evolution of Xiao Zhuan into official script (followed by regular script, running script, cursive script, etc.). ), which has a history of more than 2000 years, has been a common Chinese writing standard for Chinese people all over the world until the 20th century. Since the 1950' s, the people of China and the government of China have simplified the traditional Chinese characters and formed a new Chinese writing standard, namely simplified Chinese.
The word "traditional Chinese characters" is only used when a word has simplified Chinese characters. If a Chinese character has no corresponding simplified character, it belongs to the category of inherited characters. However, in some cases, fonts popular in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan are generally called "traditional Chinese characters" or "traditional Chinese characters".