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Traditional Chinese characters are the foundation of Chinese writing. Educated people from China and Taiwan can read both writing systems. As a Chinese language learner, it is helpful to understand traditional Chinese, as it is the foundation of Chinese writing. Understanding the structure of basic Chinese characters will help a learner remember Chinese characters. Again, many of the basic Chinese characters are the same in both traditional and simplified forms. If there is a difference between the simplified form and the traditional form, it is easy to see when you put both writing forms together. Here is an example. Do you see the difference in the character, “mom – mā”?In places where a particular set is not locally entrenched, such as Europe and the United States, instruction is now mostly simplified, as the economic importance of mainland China increases, and also because of the availability of textbooks printed in mainland China. Teachers of international students often recommend learning both systems. The language in children’s books is simple, easy and most likely contains a lot of characters you are already familiar with. They love being in the kitchen with me cooking, eating and communicating through food," adds Suzie, who continues to juggle her new-found career as a 'celebrity chef', with her own accountancy business. But what’s the difference between traditional and simplified Chinese? Which is more common? Where in the world are the two used?

Pressing Esc on the Chinese keyboard layout will toggle the mouse input between virtual QWERTY keyboard and virtual Chinese keyboard. The key will also turn on/off your keyboard input conversion. Pressing Esc on your keyboard has the same function. Instructions for using the Cangjie InputToday, simplified Chinese characters predominate among college and university programs teaching Chinese as a foreign language outside of China, [19] such as those in the United States. [20] Mainland China [ edit ]

But more often than not, you’ll just have to memorize them, as over time, and through simplification, most of them look different to how they originally did.

a b This is very similar to the 'elimination of variants of the same character' in "Series One Organization List of Variant Characters", except that these eliminations happen in Chart 1 and Chart 2 of "Complete List of Simplified Characters". Characters simplified in Chart 2 can be further used for derivation of Chart 3, but those chosen in "Series One Organization List of Variant Characters" cannot. Traditional Chinese supporters sometimes refer to simplified Chinese as 殘體字 ( cántǐzì – 'crippled characters'). Based on 132 characters and 14 components listed in Chart 2 of the Complete List, the 1,753 derived characters found in Chart 3 can be created by systematically simplifying components using Chart 2 as a conversion table. While exercising such derivation, the following rules should be observed: Her grandparents ran such a café in the courtyard of their home, in the seaside village of Tai Mei Tuk, and one of her childhood memories is waking up and eating a spam and egg sandwich.

Singapore underwent three successive rounds of character simplification, eventually arriving at the same set of simplified characters as mainland China. [14] The Law of the People's Republic of China on the National Common Language and Characters implies that simplified Chinese characters are the country's standard script, with traditional Chinese being used for purposes such as ceremonies, cultural purposes such as calligraphy, for decoration, in publications and books on ancient literature and poetry, and for research purposes. Traditional characters remain ubiquitous on buildings that predate the promotion of simplified characters, such as former government buildings, religious buildings, educational institutions, and historical monuments. Traditional characters are also often used for commercial purposes, such as in shopfront displays and advertisements.Each of the 132 simplified characters in Chart 2, when used as a component in compound characters, systematically simplify compound characters in exactly the same way the Chart 2 character itself was simplified. For instance, 單 is simplified in Chart 2 to 单. Based on the same principle, these derivations can be made: 彈 → 弹; 嬋 → 婵; 囅 → 冁; etc.