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In Japan there are two types of schools. Simplified Chinese is taught instead of traditional Chinese in pro-mainland China schools. They also teach Pinyin, a romanization system for standard Chinese, while the Taiwan-oriented schools teach Zhuyin, which uses phonetic symbols. However, the Taiwan-oriented schools are starting to teach simplified Chinese and Pinyin to offer a more well-rounded education. [23] Southeast Asia [ edit ] Criticism of the simplifications does not necessarily imply sympathy for restoration of the traditional spelling since alternative simplifications are possible. [28] See also [ edit ] She loved food and was so passionate about cooking," says Suzie about her mother, who passed away suddenly when she was just 16. Chinese includes many regional language varieties, the main ones being Mandarin, Wu, Yue and Min. These are not mutually intelligible [4] and many of the regional varieties are themselves a number of non-mutually-intelligible subvarieties. [5] As a result, many linguists refer to these varieties as separate languages. [6] A lot of times, when characters have the same pronunciation but are written differently, people will describe the character with radicals when speaking.

In general, schools in mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore use simplified characters exclusively, while schools in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan use traditional characters exclusively. Shih, Hsiu-chuan (14 December 2010). "Premier Respects 'Choice' on Spelling". Taipei Times . Retrieved 8 January 2015. However, Suzie Lee, the 2020 winner of the BBC's Best Home Cook and presenter of her own TV show, Suzie Lee's Home Cook Heroes, says that Chinese cooking is so much more. The language in children’s books is simple, easy and most likely contains a lot of characters you are already familiar with.

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These characters were simplified as left-side radicals but maintained the traditional form when used as other character components or standalone characters. thus 學 → 学; 覺 → 觉; 黌 → 黉; etc. 單 → 单, thus 彈 → 弹; 嬋 → 婵; 囅 → 冁; etc. 頁 → 页, thus 顏 → 颜; 頷 → 颔; 順 → 顺; 額 → 额; etc. 專 → 专, thus 傳 → 传; 轉 → 转; 磚 → 砖; etc. 𩙿 → 饣, thus 飯 → 饭; 飽 → 饱; 飼 → 饲; 餃 → 饺; etc. 訁 → 讠, thus 話 → 话; 語 → 语; 誰 → 谁; etc. Elimination of variants of the same character [ edit ]

Although most simplified Chinese characters in use today are the result of the work carried out by Chinese government during the 1950s and 1960s, the use of many of these forms predates the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. Caoshu, cursive written text, was the inspiration of some simplified characters, and for others, some are attested as early as the Qin dynasty as either vulgar variants or original characters. 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. A lot of simplified characters are based on characters from a previously used script. So as arbitrary as the difference in characters may seem sometimes, there is a reason for it. xíng shū) — Running Script. This is the cursive version of Standard Script, and a lot of strokes are combined into one, much like how English cursive works. The ability to write well earns sincere respect from Chinese people. They know the language is difficult to write, and if you can do so beautifully, they’ll view you as far more than just a naive foreigner!

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The plan seems to have worked. When the simplified writing system began to be taught, China’s literacy rate was around 20%. It’s now estimated to be around 95%. The character 羽 (yǔ) — feather/wings is the top component of the traditional character 習, but 習 was further simplified to 习, which was never considered an individual component before the simplification process. In 1956, the government of the People's Republic of China made public a set of simplified Chinese characters to make learning, reading and writing the Chinese language easier. In Mainland China and Singapore, people use these simpler characters. In Hong Kong, Taiwan and other places where they speak Chinese, people still use the more traditional characters. The Korean language also uses Chinese characters to represent certain words. The Japanese language uses them even more often. These characters are known in Korean as Hanja and in Japanese as Kanji. In South Korea, universities have used predominantly simplified characters since 1990s. In high school, Chinese is one of the selective subjects. By the regulation of the national curricula standards, MPS I and traditional characters had been originally used before (since the 1940s), but by the change of regulation, pinyin and simplified characters have been used to pupils who enter the school in 1996 or later. Therefore, MPS I and traditional characters disappeared after 1998 in South Korean high school Chinese curriculum.