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!
