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Traditional Chinese characters
Traditional Chinese or traditional Chinese characters are one of two sets of standard Chinese characters written contemporary. Emerged during the Han Dynasty (206 BC -. 220) and used since the fifth century during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, they are called traditional as opposed to another form – Chinese simplified, standardized by the Government of the People’s Republic of China (mainland China) in the early 1950s are now traditional Chinese used in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and some Chinese expatriate communities, especially those from the countries listed above or who emigrated before the widespread adoption of simplified characters in the People’s Republic of China. The simplified characters are in turn used in mainland China, Singapore and some Chinese expatriate communities.
Controversy over name
Among the Chinese, reference is made to traditional Chinese by different names, each associated with a particular meaning. The Government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) are called Chinese orthodox standards or Chinese (simplified Chinese: 正 体 字; traditional Chinese: 正 體 字; pinyin: zhèngtǐzì) which implies that traditional Chinese represent the full and correct form of characters. In contrast, users of simplified characters call them complex Chinese (simplified Chinese: 繁体字; traditional Chinese: 繁體字; pinyin: fántǐzì) or, informally, old characters (Chinese: 老 字; pinyin: lǎozì), with the implied that traditional Chinese characters have been replaced and are obsolete.
Printing
The People’s Republic of China and Singapore mainly use the simplified system, developed by the People’s Republic of China in the 1950s, however, the PRC also distributes documents to be read outside of mainland China using traditional characters. For documents whose original is in simplified characters, a simple conversion can introduce inaccuracies, since some characters are the simplification of two different traditional characters. When writing by hand, mostly use informal and sometimes personal simplifications. In most cases, an alternative character will be used instead of characters includes many features, such as with 体 for 體 (tǐ the body). Contrary to popular belief, most of these characters are part of the traditional spelling, but called simplified form of informal and confusing (簡寫). Although not standard, these characters are mostly accepted outside schools, and some are extremely disseminated, as sinogramme tai (台) in Taiwan to oppose the standard form (臺).
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