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parts in digital media many cultural phenomena imported from hong kong and taiwan into mainland china such as music videos karaoke videos subtitled movies and subtitled dramas use traditional chinese characters hong kong edit textbooks official statements and newspapers show no signs of moving to simplified chinese characters including state funded media however for example hong konger students sometimes opt to write with simplified characters when taking notes or while taking exams in order to write faster the use of simplified characters in hong kong has become politicized due to its association with cultural imposition from mainland china reflected in instances of protests and boycotts against the use of simplified characters in names television subtitles and in schools 24 140 instead the continued use of traditional characters has become an issue of the cultural identity of hongkongers being an easily latchable social difference with mainlanders 24 142 it is common for hong kongers to learn traditional chinese characters in school as well as some simplified characters incidentally usually by consuming media produced on the mainland for use on computers however people tend to type chinese characters using an ime with a traditional character set such as big5 in hong kong as well as elsewhere it is common for people to use both sets due to the ease of conversion between the two sets clarification needed taiwan edit simplified characters are not used in any official capacity in taiwan including in government and civil publications in taiwan however they are sometimes used in calligraphy and informal handwriting 25 it is also legal to import and distribute publications printed in simplified characters specific simplified forms predating the 20th century are in common use such as chinese 台 the first character in the name taiwan rivalling the orthodox form chinese 臺 even in publications and academic contexts southeast asia edit in singapore where mandarin chinese is one of the official languages simplified characters are the official standard and are generally used in most of official publications as well as the government controlled press while simplified characters are taught exclusively in schools and are generally used in most of official publications the government does not officially discourage the use of traditional characters and still allow parents to choose whether to have their child s chinese name registered in simplified or traditional characters traditional characters are widely used by older singaporeans and are widespread on billboards stall menus and decorations as well as in newspapers and on television there is no restriction on the use of traditional characters in mass media and television programs books magazines and music imported from hong kong and taiwan are widely available almost always using traditional characters many shop signs and menus in hawker centres and coffee shops continue to be written with traditional characters 26 in education edit 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 today simplified chinese characters predominate among college and university programs teaching chinese as a foreign language outside of china 27 such as those in the united states 28 mainland china edit in december 2004 ministry of education authorities rejected a proposal from a beijing chinese people s political consultative conference cppcc political conference member that called for elementary schools to teach traditional chinese characters in addition to the simplified ones the conference member pointed out that many especially young people have difficulties with traditional chinese characters this is especially important in dealing with non mainland communities such as taiwan and hong kong the educational authorities did not approve the recommendation saying that it did not fit in with the requirements as set out by the law and it could potentially complicate the curricula 29 a similar proposal was delivered to the first plenary session of the 11th cppcc in march 2008 30 hong kong edit most if not all chinese language textbooks in hong kong are written in traditional characters before 1997 the use of simplified characters was generally discouraged by educators citation needed after 1997 while students are still expected to be proficient and utilize traditional characters in formal settings they may sometimes adopt a hybrid written form in informal settings to speed up writing singapore malaysia and indonesia edit chinese textbooks in singapore malaysia and indonesia are written exclusively in simplified characters and only simplified characters are taught in school traditional characters are usually only taught to those taking up calligraphy as a co curricular activity or cantonese as an elective course at school chinese as a foreign language edit further information chinese as a foreign language this section does not cite any sources please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources unsourced material may be challenged and removed march 2018 learn how and when to remove this message the majority of textbooks teaching chinese are now based on simplified characters and hanyu pinyin although there are textbooks originating in china which have a traditional version for practical reasons universities and schools prepare students who will be able to communicate with mainland china so their obvious choice is to use simplified characters in places where a particular set is not locally entrenched such as europe and the united states instruction is now mostly simplified as the economic importance of mainland china increases and also because of the availability of textbooks printed in mainland china teachers of international students often recommend learning both systems europe edit in the united kingdom universities mainly teach mandarin chinese at the undergraduate level using the simplified characters coupled with pinyin however they will require the students to learn or be able to recognise the traditional forms if they are studying in taiwan or hong kong such as taking cantonese courses in australia and new zealand schools universities and tafes use predominantly simplified characters russia and most east european nations are traditionally oriented on the education of the prc s system for teaching chinese which uses simplified characters but exposes the learners to both systems east asia edit in south korea universities have used predominantly simplified characters since the 1990s in high school chinese is one of the selective subjects by the regulation of the national curricula standards bopomofo 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 bopomofo and traditional characters disappeared after 1998 in south korean high school chinese curriculum 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 bopomofo which uses phonetic symbols however the taiwan oriented schools are starting to teach simplified chinese and pinyin to offer a more well rounded education 31 southeast asia edit in the philippines the use of simplified characters has become increasingly popular before the 1970s chinese schools in the philippines were under the supervision of the ministry of education of the republic of china hence most books were using traditional characters traditional characters remained prevalent until the early 2000s institutions like the confucius institute being the cultural arm of the people s republic of china are strong proponents of the use of simplified characters also many schools are now importing their mandarin textbooks from singapore instead of taiwan public universities such as the linguistics and asian languages department of the university of the philippines use simplified characters in their teaching materials on the other hand private schools such as chiang kai shek college and saint jude catholic school remain major proponents of the usage of traditional characters some private universities such as the ateneo de manila university also use simplified characters use with computers edit in computer text applications the gb encoding scheme most often renders simplified chinese characters while big5 most often renders traditional characters although neither encoding has an explicit connection with a specific character set the lack of a one to one mapping between the simplified and traditional sets established a de facto linkage 32 since simplified chinese conflated many characters into one and since the initial version of the gb encoding scheme known as gb 2312 80 contained only one code point for each character it is impossible to use gb 2312 to map to the bigger set of traditional characters it is theoretically possible to use big5 code to map to the smaller set of simplified character glyphs although there is little market for such a product newer and alternative forms of gb have support for traditional characters in particular mainland authorities have now established gb 18030 as the official encoding standard for use in all mainland software publications the encoding contains all east asian characters included in unicode 3 0 as such gb 18030 encoding contains both simplified and traditional characters found in big 5 and gb as well as all characters found in japanese and korean encodings unicode deals with the issue of simplified and traditional characters as part of the project of han unification by including code points for each this was rendered necessary by the fact that the linkage between simplified characters and traditional characters is not one to one while this means that a unicode system can display both simplified and traditional characters it also means that different localisation files are needed for each type in font filenames and descriptions the acronym sc is used to signify the use of simplified chinese characters to differentiate fonts that use tc for traditional characters 33 internet usage edit the world wide web consortium w3c s internationalization working group recommends the use of the language tag zh hans as a language attribute value and content language value to specify web page content in simplified chinese characters 34 criticism edit further information debate on traditional and simplified chinese characters author liu shahe was an outspoken critic of the simplification of chinese characters he wrote a dedicated column entitled simplified characters are unreasonable in the chinese edition of the financial times 35 some critics pejoratively refer to simplified chinese as 殘體字 pinyin cántǐzì meaning crippled characters 36 see also edit language portal china portal ambiguities in chinese character simplification chinese character simplification scheme second round of simplified chinese characters ryakuji shinjitai singapore chinese characters differences between shinjitai and simplified characters modern chinese characters notes edit the xiandai hanyu guifan cidian defines the term as chinese characters that have undergone simplification 经过简化的汉字 3 1 2 this is very similar to the elimination of variants of the same character in series one organization list of variant characters except that these eliminations happen in chart 1 and chart 2 of complete list of simplified characters characters simplified in chart 2 can be further used for derivation of chart 3 but those chosen in series one organization list of variant characters cannot references edit citations edit 教育部就 汉字简化方案 等发布50周年答记者问 gov cn in chinese 2006 03 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