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հայերեն bahasa indonesia ilokano íslenska italiano 日本語 jawa ქართული kumoring қазақша ಕನ್ನಡ 한국어 ladino ladin latviešu malagasy minangkabau македонски മലയാളം मराठी bahasa melayu မြန်မာဘာသာ नेपाली nederlands norsk nynorsk norsk bokmål ਪੰਜਾਬੀ polski پنجابی پښتو português română русский русиньскый srpskohrvatski српскохрватски සිංහල simple english српски srpski sunda svenska ไทย tagalog toki pona türkçe українська اردو oʻzbekcha ўзбекча tiếng việt winaray 吴语 მარგალური vahcuengh 文言 閩南語 bân lâm gí 粵語 中文 edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikimedia commons wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia standardized set of chinese characters this article has multiple issues please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page learn how and when to remove these messages this article needs more citations please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources unsourced material may be challenged and removed find sources simplified chinese characters news newspapers books scholar jstor april 2018 learn how and when to remove this message this article may contain original research please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations statements consisting only of original research should be removed april 2018 learn how and when to remove this message learn how and when to remove this message simplified chinese script type logographic published 1956 1964 1977 1988 2013 period 1956 present direction left to right top to bottom columns right to left official script china singapore languages chinese related scripts parent systems oracle bone script small seal script clerical script regular script simplified chinese sister systems traditional characters kanji chữ nôm hanja khitan large script khitan small script bopomofo iso 15924 iso 15924 hans 501 han simplified variant unicode unicode range not in unicode chinese name simplified chinese 简化字 traditional chinese 簡化字 transcriptions standard mandarin hanyu pinyin jiǎnhuàzì bopomofo ㄐㄧㄢˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄗˋ wade giles chien 3 hua 4 tzŭ 4 tongyong pinyin jiǎn huà zìh ipa tɕjɛ ̀ n xwa ̂ tsɹ̩ ̂ yue cantonese yale romanization gáan faa jih jyutping gaan2 faa3 zi6 ipa kan fa tsi alternative chinese name simplified chinese 简体字 traditional chinese 簡體字 transcriptions standard mandarin hanyu pinyin jiǎntǐzì bopomofo ㄐㄧㄢˇ ㄊㄧˇ ㄗˋ wade giles chien 3 tʻi 3 tzŭ 4 tongyong pinyin jiǎn tǐ zìh ipa tɕjɛ ̀ n tʰi ̀ tsɹ̩ ̂ yue cantonese yale romanization gáan tái jih jyutping gaan2 tai2 zi6 ipa kan tʰɐj tsi this article contains phonetic transcriptions in the international phonetic alphabet ipa for an introductory guide on ipa symbols see help ipa for the distinction between and see ipa brackets and transcription delimiters simplified chinese characters are one of two standardized character sets used to write the chinese language with the other being traditional characters their widespread adoption during the 20th century was part of efforts by the people s republic of china prc to promote literacy 1 today they are the standard forms used in mainland china malaysia and singapore while traditional characters are officially used in hong kong macau and taiwan simplification of chinese script typically involves reducing a character s total stroke count or streamlining which strokes appear in a given component by systematically simplifying radicals large swaths of the character set are altered at once many simplifications were drawn from popular cursive forms while variant characters with identical pronunciation and meaning were consolidated into a single standardized form usually the simplest available many characters were left untouched and are thus identical in both orthographies the prc government has never officially declared the simplification process complete a second round of simplified characters promulgated in 1977 in the wake of the cultural revolution was largely composed of artificial new variants designed to reduce stroke counts rather than drawing on existing cursive forms it proved unpopular and confusing before being retracted in 1986 in 2013 china s state council implemented the list of commonly used standard chinese characters listing 8 105 characters including a small number of revised forms 2 chinese characters chinese family of scripts written chinese kanji hanja chữ hán evolution of script styles neolithic symbols in china oracle bone bronze seal large small bird worm clerical cursive semi cursive regular flat brush modern typefaces fangsong ming hei properties and classification components strokes order radicals orthography jiu zixing xin zixing digital encoding collation and standards kangxi dictionary forms 1716 commonly used characters prc 2013 commonly used characters hong kong 2007 nan min recommended characters taiwan 2009 standard form of national characters taiwan 1982 jōyō kanji japan 2010 reforms simplified characters second round traditional characters debate japanese script reform kyūjitai homographs and readings literary and colloquial readings kanbun idu variants zetian characters derived systems kana man yōgana hiragana katakana jurchen script khitan large small nüshu bopomofo slavonic transcription transliteration of chinese v t e nomenclature edit in chinese simplified characters are referred to by their official name 简化字 jiǎnhuàzì or colloquially as 简体字 jiǎntǐzì ⓘ the latter term refers broadly to all character variants featuring simplifications of character form or structure note 1 a practice which has always been present as a part of the chinese writing system the official name tends to refer to the specific systematic set published by the chinese government which includes not only simplifications of individual characters but also a substantial reduction in the total number of characters through the merger of formerly distinct forms 4 history edit background edit see also variant chinese characters according to chinese palaeographer qiu xigui the broadest trend in the evolution of chinese characters over their history has been simplification both in graphical shape 字形 zìxíng the external appearances of individual graphs and in graphical form 字体 字體 zìtǐ overall changes in the distinguishing features of graphic al shape and calligraphic style in most cases refer ring to rather obvious and rather substantial changes 5 the initiatives following the founding of the qin dynasty 221 206 bc to universalize the use of their small seal script across the recently conquered parts of the empire is generally seen as being the first real attempt at script reform in chinese history before the 20th century variation in character shape on the part of scribes which would continue with the later invention of woodblock printing was ubiquitous for example prior to the qin dynasty 221 206 bc the character meaning bright was written as either 明 or 朙 with either 日 sun or 囧 window on the left with the 月 moon component on the right li si d 208 bc the chancellor of qin attempted to universalize the qin small seal script across china following the wars that had politically unified the country for the first time li prescribed the 朙 form of the character for bright but some scribes ignored this and continued to write the character as 明 however the increased usage of 朙 was followed by proliferation of a third variant 眀 with 目 eye on the left likely derived as a contraction of 朙 ultimately 明 became the character s standard form 6 the book of han 111 ad describes an earlier attempt made by king xuan of zhou d 782 bc to unify character forms across the states of ancient china with his chief chronicler having written fifteen chapters describing what is referred to as the big seal script the traditional narrative as also attested in the shuowen jiezi dictionary c 100 ad is that the qin small seal script that would later be imposed across china was originally derived from the zhou big seal script with few modifications however the body of epigraphic evidence comparing the character forms used by scribes gives no indication of any real consolidation in character forms prior to the founding of the qin 7 the han dynasty 202 bc 220 ad that inherited the qin administration coincided with the perfection of clerical script through the process of libian late qing literature and republican era reform 1850 1949 edit new culture movement background aftermath of the 1911 revolution second revolution coronation of yuan shikai national protection war manchu restoration constitutional protection movement warlord era eastward spread of western learning scientific revolution boxer indemnity scholarship french revolution russian revolution may fourth movement ideologies democracy science scientism anti confucianism social darwinism anarchism modernism liberalism socialism communism new humanism practice westernization east west cultural debate total westernization democratization simplification of chinese characters romanization of chinese languages writing with vernacular chinese national language movement translation of foreign literature sorting out national heritages feminist movement education reforms schools of thought doubting antiquity school xueheng school chinese communist party creation society new confucianism crescent moon society league of left wing writers major publications new youth the critical review a madman s diary the tiger notable people ba jin chen duxiu guo moruo hu shih lao she li dazhao lu xun mao dun qian xuantong shen congwen yu dafu zhu ziqing kang youwei v t e excerpt of initial 1935 simplifications promulgated by the republic of china ministry of education in 1935 later retracted in 1936 though most closely associated with the people s republic the idea of a mass simplification of character forms first gained traction in china during the early 20th century in 1909 the educator and linguist lufei kui formally proposed the use of simplified characters in education for the first time over the following years marked by the 1911 xinhai revolution that toppled the qing dynasty followed by growing social and political discontent that further erupted into the 1919 may fourth movement many anti imperialist intellectuals throughout china began to see the country s writing system as a serious impediment to its modernization in 1916 a multi part english language article entitled the problem of the chinese language co authored by the chinese linguist yuen ren chao 1892 1982 and poet hu shih 1891 1962 has been identified as a turning point in the history of the chinese script as it was one of the first clear calls for china to move away from the use of characters entirely 8 instead chao proposed that the language be written with an alphabet which he saw as more logical and efficient the alphabetization and simplification campaigns would exist alongside one another among the republican intelligentsia for the next several decades 9 recent commentators have echoed some contemporary claims that chinese characters were blamed for the economic problems in china during that time 10 lu xun one of the most prominent chinese authors of the 20th century stated that if chinese characters are not destroyed then china will die 漢字不滅 中國必亡 during the 1930s and 1940s discussions regarding simplification took place within the ruling kuomintang kmt party many members of the chinese intelligentsia maintained that simplification would increase literacy rates throughout the country in 1935 the republic of china ministry of education published the first official list of simplified forms consisting of 324 characters collated by peking university professor qian xuantong however fierce opposition within the kmt resulted in the list being rescinded in 1936 11 first round of simplification 1949 1977 edit work throughout the 1950s resulted in the 1956 promulgation of the chinese character simplification scheme a draft of 515 simplified characters and 54 simplified components whose simplifications would be present in most compound characters over the following decade the script reform committee deliberated on characters in the 1956 scheme collecting public input regarding the recognizability of variants and often approving forms in small batches parallel to simplification there were also initiatives aimed at eliminating the use of characters entirely and replacing them with pinyin as an official chinese alphabet but this possibility was abandoned confirmed by a speech given by zhou enlai in 1958 12 in 1965 the prc published the 13 hereafter characters for printing which included standard printed forms for 6196 characters including all of the forms from the 1956 scheme 14 second round of simplification 1977 1986 edit main article second round of simplified chinese characters a second round of simplified characters was promulgated in 1977 but was poorly received by the public and quickly fell out of official use it was ultimately formally rescinded in 1986 15 the second round simplifications were unpopular in large part because most of the forms were completely new in contrast to the familiar variants comprising the majority of the first round 16 with the rescission of the second round work toward further character simplification largely came to an end 17 since 1986 edit in 1986 authorities retracted the second round completely though they had been largely fallen out of use within a year of their initial introduction that year the authorities also promulgated a final version of the general list of simplified chinese characters it was identical to the 1964 list save for 6 changes including the restoration of 3 characters that had been simplified in the first round 叠 覆 像 the form 疊 is used instead of 叠 in regions using traditional characters the chinese government stated that it wished to keep chinese orthography stable the chart of generally utilized characters of modern chinese was published in 1988 and included 7000 simplified and unsimplified characters of these half were also included in the revised list of commonly used characters in modern chinese which specified 2500 common characters and 1000 less common characters 18 in 2009 the chinese government published a major revision to the list which included a total of 8300 characters no new simplifications were introduced in addition slight modifications to the orthography of 44 characters to fit traditional calligraphic rules were initially proposed but were not implemented due to negative public response 19 also the practice of unrestricted simplification of rare and archaic characters by analogy using simplified radicals or components is now discouraged a state language commission official cited 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