Criticism of the simplifications does not necessarily imply sympathy for restoration of the traditional spelling since alternative simplifications are possible. [28] See also [ edit ] The Queen's University economics and management graduate is a strong advocate for reducing food waste and offers tips on where you can substitute and re-use ingredients and how to make dishes last longer. lì shū) — Clerical Script. This was mainly used by government officials as the characters in the script have fewer strokes and a more flowing style of writing than Lesser Seal. It made writing faster, especially with a brush. Clerical Script and traditional characters have the same shape. Some of the ingredients might seem somewhat unconventional for Hong Kong cuisine – such as spam, corned beef, HP sauce, ketchup, condensed milk and Linton tea bags. 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”?

Chinese is used by the Han people in China and other ethnic groups in China who are declared Chinese by the Chinese government. Many people in autonomous regions of China speak other languages. Chinese is almost always written in Chinese characters. They are symbols that have meaning, called logograms. They also give some indication of pronunciation, but the same character can get very different pronunciations among the different kinds of Chinese. Since Chinese characters have been around for at least 3500 years, people in places far from each other say them differently, just as "1, 2, 3" can be read differently in different languages. She loved food and was so passionate about cooking," says Suzie about her mother, who passed away suddenly when she was just 16.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. Those who advocate for simplified characters continue to argue that simplified still has advantages in more rural areas where formal education isn’t so accessible. We may think that Northern Ireland is famous for a good old cuppa, but in Hong Kong hot milk tea is an institution - so much so that in 2017 the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of Hong Kong declared their tea-making technique as an 'intangible cultural heritage'. Conversion from simplified Chinese to traditional Chinese happens automatically when the input mode changes from traditional to simplified Chinese. You can find this radical in almost every character that has something to do with water, for example: 海 ( hǎi, “sea”) or 汁 ( zhī, “juice”). In this case, the knowledge of the pronunciation of 十 ( shí, “ten”) comes in handy, as 汁 ( zhī, “juice”) sounds similar.

In all areas, most handwritten text will include informal simplifications which are not the same as the simplifications officially promulgated by the PRC, often ones influenced instead by 新字体, shinjitai characters that originated in Japan. [ citation needed] For example, the informal simplification 台 of the first character of "Taiwan" 臺 rivals its orthodox form in commonality, even in publications and academic contexts. In part, this is due to the simplification process adopting existing variants in use, rather than fashioning them from whole cloth, such as was largely done in the unsuccessful second round. [15] [16] This is because the adoption of simplified characters has been gradual and predates the Chinese Civil War by several decades and some are used beyond mainland China to some extent. [17] Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia [ edit ] Since simplified Chinese conflated many characters into one and since the initial version of the GB encoding scheme, known as GB 2312-80, contained only one code point for each character, it is impossible to use GB 2312 to map to the bigger set of traditional characters. It is theoretically possible to use Big5 code to map to the smaller set of simplified character glyphs, although there is little market for such a product. Newer and alternative forms of GB have support for traditional characters. In particular, mainland authorities have now established GB 18030 as the official encoding standard for use in all mainland software publications. The encoding contains all East Asian characters included in Unicode 3.0. As such, GB 18030 encoding contains both simplified and traditional characters found in Big-5 and GB, as well as all characters found in Japanese and Korean encodings. They fall into four categories, which are explained below with examples. Category 1 example: 习 / 習 (xí) — habit

Traditional characters are widely used by older Singaporeans, and are widespread on billboards, stall menus, and decorations, as well as in newspapers and on television. The traditional writing system is regarded as being richer in meaning than simplified. There are historical cultural references as well as pictorial descriptions that reflect the thinking of earlier times.

People in favor of traditional characters argue that the simplified writing system has outlived its purpose. After all, children in Hong Kong and Taiwan do perfectly fine learning the traditional characters. The traditional character looks similar to saloon doors, with the simplified character looking somewhat like a doorframe. Traditional characters are generally used in very formal business settings, as well as in any situation involving high-level professional writing (contracts, government papers, etc.).Take a look at 发 / 髮. The simplified character has five strokes, while the traditional character has 15. The 14 simplified components in Chart 2 are never used alone as individual characters. They only serve as components. Example of derived simplification based on the component 𦥯, simplified to 𰃮 ( ), include: 學 → 学; 覺 → 觉; 黌 → 黉; etc.