Bofferbrauer2 said:
What's the difference between the two? |
The Peoples republic of China developed the simplified characters in an effort to make writing and reading more accessible to the whole populace. It means, thzat for some (not all) characters of the writing the number of strokes is reduced. To demonstrate this, look at this image:
These are the characters for chinese language. The first two refer to it as Hanyu (language of the han). The top row writes it in traditional characters, the second row the same as simplified. The third row stands for Zhongwen (chinese language), an alternative way to translate chinese language. I think in this case traditional and simplified characters are identical.
Simplified is the official writing in mainland China and Singapore, traditional in Taiwan.
Mnementh said:
The Peoples republic of China developed the simplified characters in an effort to make writing and reading more accessible to the whole populace. It means, thzat for some (not all) characters of the writing the number of strokes is reduced. To demonstrate this, look at this image:
These are the characters for chinese language. The first two refer to it as Hanyu (language of the han). The top row writes it in traditional characters, the second row the same as simplified. The third row stands for Zhongwen (chinese language), an alternative way to translate chinese language. I think in this case traditional and simplified characters are identical. Simplified is the official writing in mainland China and Singapore, traditional in Taiwan. |
You beat me to the answer... I would just add that traditional Chinese is also used in Hong Kong and Macau
JC317 said:
You beat me to the answer... I would just add that traditional Chinese is also used in Hong Kong and Macau |
Wasn't sure about that, that's why I left it out. Thanks for the addition.
China is usually a difficult market for consoles due to factors such as cencorshio, translations, low average income and different taste in games. But let's see how the Switch will do, can't hurt anyway. And China is a mobile heavy country.
Mnementh said:
The Peoples republic of China developed the simplified characters in an effort to make writing and reading more accessible to the whole populace. It means, thzat for some (not all) characters of the writing the number of strokes is reduced. To demonstrate this, look at this image:
These are the characters for chinese language. The first two refer to it as Hanyu (language of the han). The top row writes it in traditional characters, the second row the same as simplified. The third row stands for Zhongwen (chinese language), an alternative way to translate chinese language. I think in this case traditional and simplified characters are identical. Simplified is the official writing in mainland China and Singapore, traditional in Taiwan. |
Yes, in the final one the simplified and traditional are the same. I'm currently learning Chinese and Japanese, and for Chinese I try to learn both, and since Hanzi and Kanji were simplified differently, sometimes it means there are 3 variants of the character for me to learn!
Mainland China, Singapore & Malaysia use simplified Chinese, HK, TW & Macau use traditional Chinese.
They sound exactly the same (assuming spoken in the same dialect/Mandarin) but are written differently, although people who read one typically can read in the other, not sure why merely an empirical conclusion.
Just watched like 5s of the video, it seems as though it's for the HK & TW market, with the Odyssey trailer ending frames saying that the game is to be released in HK 27 Oct and in TW 01 Dec.
While it'd be good for Nintendo to enter the Chinese market, I'm not sure the market itself is groomed for mass console video game consumption.
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