brief introduction
Traditional Chinese characters, a font form of Chinese characters, are called "traditional Chinese characters" in European and American countries. 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.
A total of 2274 simplified words and 14 simplified word radicals, such as "壹壹", "壹壹", "壹" and "壹壹".
origin
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, the fonts popular in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan are generally called "traditional Chinese characters" or "traditional Chinese characters"; Chinese standard words (including simplified words and non-simplified inherited words) are generally called "simplified words" or "simplified Chinese".
But in fact, the difference between this system and Taiwan Province Province, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao Special Administrative Region is not only the difference between simple and complicated Chinese characters, but also the difference between variant characters and glyphs, so there are not necessarily fewer strokes of "simplified".
Some strokes are more than the former, such as "Qiang". Influenced by writing habits, some Chinese characters in Taiwan Province Province have been merged, but the replaced characters can still be used as variant characters, only a certain term of the word has been replaced.
principle
The principles of simplifying traditional Chinese characters into simplified Chinese characters are "saying without doing" and "progressing steadily by convention", that is, using simplified Chinese characters popular among the people for a long time as far as possible, only making necessary changes, and simplifying them according to the principle of "progressing steadily by convention".
Including simplifying the number of words and abolishing homonym variants. 1955, the Ministry of Culture of China and the Chinese Character Reform Commission of China published the first list of variant characters, and abolished the variant characters of 1055.
Reduce strokes. 1964, the China Character Reform Commission, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education published a Summary of Simplified Chinese Characters, with 2238 simplified Chinese characters, which simplified the traditional Chinese characters extracted from 16 to 19 to simplified Chinese characters extracted from 8 to 1 1.