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  2. Simplified Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    Simplified Chinese characters are one of two standardized character sets widely used to write the Chinese language, with the other being traditional characters.Their mass standardization during the 20th century was part of an initiative by the People's Republic of China (PRC) to promote literacy, and their use in ordinary circumstances on the mainland has been encouraged by the Chinese ...

  3. Traditional Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    Traditional characters are known by different names throughout the Chinese-speaking world. The government of Taiwan officially refers to traditional Chinese characters as 正體字; 正体字; zhèngtǐzì; 'orthodox characters'. [9] This term is also used outside Taiwan to distinguish standard characters, including both simplified, and ...

  4. Chinese Character Simplification Scheme - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The Chinese Character Simplification Scheme is a list of simplified Chinese characters promulgated in 1956 by the State Council of the People's Republic of China. It contains the vast majority of simplified characters in use today. To distinguish it from the second round of simplified Chinese characters published in 1977, the 1956 list ...

  5. General List of Simplified Chinese Characters - Wikipedia

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    The General List of Simplified Chinese Characters ( simplified Chinese: 简化字总表; traditional Chinese: 簡化字總表; pinyin: Jiǎnhuàzì zǒngbiǎo) was the standard list of simplified Chinese characters published in China in 1964. It largely ratified and revised the ' Chinese Character Simplification Scheme promulgated in 1956, and ...

  6. Debate on traditional and simplified Chinese characters

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    The debate on traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters is an ongoing dispute concerning Chinese orthography among users of Chinese characters. It has stirred up heated responses from supporters of both sides in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and among overseas Chinese communities with its implications of political ideology and cultural identity. [1]

  7. Stroke Orders of the Commonly Used Standard Chinese ...

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    Stroke Orders of the Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters (simplified Chinese: 通用规范汉字笔顺规范; traditional Chinese: 通用規範漢字筆順規範; pinyin: tōngyòng guīfàn hànzì bǐshùn guīfàn) is a language standard jointly published by the Ministry of Education and the National Language Commission of China in November, 2020.

  8. List of Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters - Wikipedia

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    e. The Table of General Standard Chinese Characters is the current standard list of 8,105 Chinese characters published by the government of the People's Republic of China and promulgated in June 2013. The project began in 2001, originally named the "Table of Standard Chinese Characters." This table integrates the First Batch of Simplified ...

  9. Written Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Written Chinese is a writing system that uses Chinese characters and other symbols to represent the Chinese languages. Chinese characters do not directly represent pronunciation, unlike letters in an alphabet or syllabograms in a syllabary. Rather, the writing system is morphosyllabic: characters are one spoken syllable in length, but generally ...