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Traditional Chinese characters are a form of praising Chinese characters, which 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 characters were collected in the Summary of Simplified Characters, with simplified characters 14, such as Zhu, Zhu, Zhu and Cheng.
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.
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 sensitivity and other two aspects: first, simplify the number of words and abolish homonyms.
1955, China's Ministry of Culture and the Language and Character Reform Commission published the first list of variant characters, and abolished 1055 variant characters. The second is to reduce strokes. 1964, the China Character Reform Commission, Confucian scholars of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education published the Summary of Simplified Characters, with 2238 simplified characters, which simplified the traditional Chinese characters extracted from 16 to 19 to those extracted from 8 to 1 1 each word.
way
There are six ways to simplify Chinese characters. One is to replace radicals, the other is to delete parts, the third is to replace homophones, the fourth is to completely transform, the fifth is to simplify analogy, and the sixth is cursive script.