There are two main types of simplification of Chinese characters: one is the simplification of traditional Chinese strokes, such as Yi, Xun, Yi and Cheng.
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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.
Simplified Chinese is mainly composed of inherited characters and simplified characters introduced by China people and China government after 1950. At present, simplified Chinese is mainly used in Chinese mainland and Southeast Asia (such as Malaysia and Singapore), while traditional Chinese is mainly used in Taiwan Province Province, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao Special Administrative Region of China.
"? 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 characters (including simplified characters and non-simplified inherited characters) are generally called "simplified characters" or "simplified characters". But in fact, the difference between this system and the systems of Taiwan Province Province, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao Special Administrative Region is not only the difference between simplified Chinese characters and traditional Chinese characters, but also the difference in the choice of variant characters and glyphs to a great extent.
Therefore, "Simplified Chinese" is not necessarily less strokes; 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.
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