Simplified Chinese characters (; also ) are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. The other set is Traditional Chinese characters. Simplified Chinese characters are the Chinese characters officially simplified by the government of the People's Republic of China in an attempt to promote literacy. This character set is used for most Chinese-language printing in Mainland China and Singapore whereas traditional characters are used in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and overseas Chinese communities. Simplified characters are gradually gaining popularity among many overseas Chinese communities as more mainland Chinese are emigrating from their homeland.

Simplified characters forms are created by diminishing the number of strokes and simplifying the form from Traditional Chinese. A considerable number of characters were simplified, but some of the characters are identical between Simplified and Traditional Chinese. A small number of Simplified characters are not derived from Traditional Chinese in the usual way; and some Simplified characters are completely different in form from Traditional characters.

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The final list of Simplified characters, announced in 1986, contains the following:

• Chart 1, which contains 350 singly simplified characters, whose simplifications cannot be generalized to other characters
• Chart 2, which contains 132 simplified characters and 14 simplified radicals, which can all be generalized to other characters
• Chart 3, a list of 1,753 characters which are simplified in accordance with Chart 2. This list is non-exhaustive, so a character that can be simplified in accordance with Chart 2 should be simplified, even if it doesn't appear in Chart 3.
• Appendix, which contains:
  • 39 characters that are officially considered to be cases where a complicated variant form has been abolished in favour of a simpler variant form, rather than where a complicated character is replaced by a newly-created simpler character. However, these characters are commonly considered to have been simplifications, so they are included here for reference purposes.
  • 35 place names that have been modified to replace rare characters with more common ones. These are not character simplifications, because it is the place names that were being modified, not the characters themselves. One place name has since been reverted to its original version.

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Challenging Chinese character: 鼇。鳌 ao2 = A giant turtle（one of those word that is difficult to write even in simplified Chinese: 鳌!)
chineseteachers (chineseteachers) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:03:53 -0000
Challenging Chinese character: 鼇。鳌 ao2 = A giant turtle（one of those word that is difficult to write even in simplified Chinese: 鳌!)
Especially offensive, Bing censors Simplified Chinese results no matter what country you are in! Excuse me? http://bit.ly/7bXiVI #censorship
scottfreeactor (Scott Free) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:23:13 -0000
Especially offensive, Bing censors Simplified Chinese results no matter what country you are in! Excuse me? http://bit.ly/7bXiVI #censorship
This word meaning difficult is really difficult to write .. 難 .. Simplified Chinese changed it to 难.But Japanese still using traditional :(
jianxiong (Jianxiong　サム) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:01:29 -0000
This word meaning difficult is really difficult to write .. 難 .. Simplified Chinese changed it to 难.But Japanese still using traditional :(
English-Chinese (Simplified) proofreading: http://www.aquarius.net/project/146575
translationjobs (Aquarius translation) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:26:43 -0000
English-Chinese (Simplified) proofreading: http://www.aquarius.net/project/146575
English-Chinese (Simplified) translation: http://www.aquarius.net/project/146572
translationjobs (Aquarius translation) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:22 -0000
English-Chinese (Simplified) translation: http://www.aquarius.net/project/146572
Daughter just brought an ESSAY she wrote home. An ESSAY! Written in simplified Chinese characters! I can't even read a few of these words!
all2swift (Not Swift) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:17:14 -0000
Daughter just brought an ESSAY she wrote home. An ESSAY! Written in simplified Chinese characters! I can't even read a few of these words!

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