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	Simplified Chinese character at AllExperts
		Simplified characters are gradually gaining popularity among many overseas Chinese communities as more mainland Chinese are emigrating from their homeland.
		Certain simplified characters that have long existed in informal writing for centuries also have popular usage, while those characters simplified forcefully by PRC government are much less common in daily appearance.
		Since simplified Chinese conflated many characters into one and since the initial version of the GB encoding scheme, known as GB2312-80, contained only one code point for each character, it is impossible to use GB2312 to map to the bigger set of traditional characters.
	en.allexperts.com /e/s/si/simplified_chinese_character.htm (3999 words)

	More Than You Want to Know About Simplified Characters
		The system of "simplified characters," that is to say, the corpus of both modified and unmodified characters that makes up the standard writing system of China today, was first promulgated in a tentative draft in 1956.
		Simplified characters occasionally are not the shortest form among the variants that were consolidated.
		Simplified characters have been in official use for nearly half a century, everyone is accustomed to them, and all but the oldest people in China find it easier to read and write simplified characters than traditional ones.
	weber.ucsd.edu /~dkjordan/chin/SimplifiedCharacters.html (4184 words)

	Simplified Chinese character - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Simplified Chinese characters are used for most Chinese-language printing in Mainland China and Singapore, while traditional characters are used in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and many overseas Chinese communities.
		Simplified character forms are created by diminishing the number of strokes and simplifying the forms of a sizeable proportion of traditional Chinese characters.
		Some characters were, however, simplified irregularly, and some simplified characters have forms that are very dissimilar to and unpredictable from traditional characters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simplified_Chinese_character (4610 words)

	Chinese character - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Characters of this sort are composed of two parts: a pictograph, which suggests the general meaning of the character, and a phonetic part, which is derived from a character pronounced in the same way as the word the new character represents.
		All these characters have on the left a radical of three dots, which is a simplified pictograph for a water drop, indicating that the character has a semantic connection with water; the right-hand side in each case is a phonetic indicator.
		Because character simplifications were not officially sanctioned and generally a result of caoshu writing or idiosyncratic reductions, traditional, standard characters were mandatory in printed works, while the (unofficial) simplified characters would be used in everyday writing, or quick scribblings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_character (6396 words)

	Simplified Spelling Society : Chinese character reform.
		A third draft of the list of commonly-used simplified characters was subsequently compiled, numbering 1,634, and was sent to specialist committees concerned with book-publishing, education and newspapers, to obtain their reactions.
		The average number of strokes in each of the simplified characters was 8.17, which was half that of the original versions.
		This final list consists of three parts: 352 simplified characters whose simplified forms cannot be used as radicals in complex characters, 132 characters which can be used as radicals in complex characters (as in Figure 2), and 14 simplified radicals which only occur in complex characters but affect many hundreds of characters.
	www.spellingsociety.org /journals/j13/chinese.php (1680 words)

	Chinese Language -- Characters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Initially, characters were pictures of their meanings with and without much abstract meaning, but as time passed, the characters evolved to express a more complex language.
		One reason for the overwhelming number of characters is due to the existence of rarely-occurring variant and obscure characters (many of which are unused, even in Classical Chinese).
		The large number of Chinese characters is due to their logographic nature — for every morpheme there must be a symbol, and sometimes there are variant characters have developed for the same morpheme.
	polaris.gseis.ucla.edu /skozerow/characters.htm (1130 words)

	Traditional Chinese character at AllExperts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Today traditional characters are used in Republic of China on Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and by some overseas Chinese communities, especially those originating from the aforementioned regions/countries or who emigrated before the widespread adoption of simplified characters in the People's Republic of China.
		In contrast, simplified characters are used in mainland China, Singapore, and in some overseas Chinese communities; especially those from aforementioned countries who emigrated after the widespread adoption of simplified Chinese characters.
		Curiously, although the character which is generally translated as "complex" itself comprises numerous, if not complex strokes, the character has not undergone simplification; this is perhaps intentional as it demonstrates the relative complexity of the Traditional characters in contrast to the Simplified versions.
	en.allexperts.com /e/t/tr/traditional_chinese_character.htm (753 words)

	EastSouthWestNorth: Traditional versus Simplified Chinese Characteri
		Simplified Chinese characters are used in China and Singapore, while traditional characters are used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and Malaysia.
		He said it was strange for the Chinese linguist to comment on the use of simplified characters in the UN when it was a "non-issue".
		Traditional characters, once belittled on the mainland as "the writing of ox-demons and snake-gods", were simplified in 1956 to help boost literacy.
	www.zonaeuropa.com /20060413_1.htm (2730 words)

	Simplified characters
		In US universities, most schools try to accommodate both styles and most start with traditional characters and introduced simplified characters for the higher levels (there are notable exceptions, such as Stanford, which just decided to start with simplified characters).
		The “esthetic” argument, i.e., simplified characters are ugly, presumably due to the loss of balance and symmetry as the result of stroke reduction.
		Simplification is also responsible for the elimination of one-to-one correspondence between morpheme and character in some cases, i.e., several distinct morphemes come to be represented by one simplified character.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /dept/chinese/aspect/simplified.html (1829 words)

	Simplified Spelling Society : Japanese writing system.
		In China, simplified characters have been used in some texts in an informal way for several thousand years, though it was not until the 1950s that the Mainland China government moved towards adoption of such characters.
		In Japan, as in China, the force of conservative tradition was such that simplified characters were not officially adopted until about the middle of the 20th century (1946 onwards, to be precise).
		Apart from the sheer number of Chinese characters in use and the complexity of shape of many of them, another source of difficulty with the prewar writing system had been the fact that a given character often had a large number of words or morphemes (conventionally known as 'readings') associated with it.
	www.spellingsociety.org /journals/j19/japanese.php (2136 words)

	Chinese Characters
		Until recent centuries, China had one of the highest literacy rates in the world and more than half of the world's literature was written in Chinese characters.
		Due to the central role of calligraphy in Chinese art and the vitality of Chinese civilization, Chinese characters have held a similarly preeminent position in the world's art.
		Through the medium of form, way of handling the brush, presentation, and style, calligraphy as a work of art conveys the moral integrity, character, emotions, esthetic feelings and culture of the artist to readers affecting them by the power of appeal and the joy of beauty.
	www.chinesesoftwareguide.com /chinese/characters.htm (188 words)

	Simplified Chinese characters
		Simplified Chinese) was officially adopted in the People's Republic of China in 1949 in an effort to eradicate illiteracy.
		The simplified script is also used in Singapore but the older traditional characters are still used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and Malaysia.
		About 2,000 characters have been simplified in a number of different ways (the simplified characters are shown in red):
	www.omniglot.com /writing/chinese_simplified.htm (191 words)

	Learn Chinese Mandarin Speaking PinYin Pin Yin Characters Pronounciation Simplified Traditional Chinese
		The simplified system helps making it easier for people to learn and master the written language, which in turn helps reducing the illiterate rate and the social development in China.
		The changeover from traditional to simplified characters was systematic and followed several pre-determined rules.
		It's not that hard for one who is used to traditional characters to learn to recognize the simplified ones or vice versa.
	www.directron.com /hxchinese.html (1075 words)

	Chinese (Simplified) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Characters in GB18030 are encoded in either 1 byte, 2 bytes, or 4 bytes.
		The characters may be displayed as square blocks or may not be displayed at all.
		On Chinese (Simplified) Windows 95 and NT with Netscape 4.06, you may not be able to type the correct Chinese characters when using the Input Method Editor (the IME lets you input double-byte characters in addition to alphanumeric characters).
	hod.hlcl.com /en/help/dbcs_zha.html (1344 words)

	IME Tutorial
		There are literally thousands of Chinese characters which you might choose to enter, and there simply are not enough keys or combinations of keys to make it possible to easily enter Chinese characters.
		As you type, it tries to figure out what Chinese characters you really had in mind, and if you start to type a complete sentence, it may revise some of the choices from before based upon what you have subsequently typed.
		If the IME is smart, it can work out which character you intended from the context (and the phrase dictionaries that are built into some IMEs seems to help here), but sometimes it helps to give the IME a hint.
	www.andante.org /ime.html (2341 words)

	Learn Chinese Characters and Radicals Online - Course Content - Textbook
		However, every character, old or new, simple or complex, was created by means of one of just a few different formation methods.
		All Chinese characters, from the simplest to the most complex, are formed by writing strokes.
		One reason learning about radicals is very important is because radicals are used to organize characters in many Chinese dictionaries: you must be able to identify the radical of a character to look it up in a dictionary.
	www.chineseliteracy.net /content/contenttextbook.htm (830 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Traditional vs. Simplified Chinese Debate Grows
		Chinese character experts, however, point out that on the surface, traditional Chinese appears to be in an inferior position, but time may prove that it may be in a better position in the long run because of its cultural heritage and beauty.
		In fact it is easier to learn the structure of the traditional characters than the simplified ones.
		Qingyun Xu, a professor in the Department of Chinese at Dongwu University, said that the traditional characters are art crystals and national treasures.
	en.epochtimes.com /news/6-5-9/41355.html (801 words)

	??? Chinese Simplified Characters on CorelDraw ??? (Chinese)
		I can copy and any Chinese Characters from these softwares and paste into the Microsoft Office 2000, but unfortunatelly this not working with the Corel Draw.
		I went through many different ways, but as I paste it in the Corel, some funny characters are coming up.
		I tried your advice, and finally I got the CH Characters into the CorelDraw 9 but if i want to change the size of the letters,is getting wors, looks like some very low resolution BMP picture.
	www.proz.com /post/113593 (456 words)

	Amazon.com: Integrated Chinese, Level 1, Part 2: Textbook, Simplified Characters, Second Edition: Books: Tao-Chung ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Integrated Chinese Level 1 Part 1 Textbook is appropriate for beginning students at the high school or college level, or for anyone seeking to communicate effectively in Chinese wherever it is spoken.
		However, I wanted to start learning the simplified characters and had seen the level 1, part 1 simplified first edition and liked THAT, so thought that the second edition would be fine....WRONG.
		The biggest complaint is that in the level 1, part 2, unlike part 1, the characters are entirely too small so that not only is recognition difficult but trying to write them out is almost impossible for the more complicated characters requiring 5 or more strokes.
	www.amazon.com /Integrated-Chinese-Level-Part-Characters/dp/0887274765 (1018 words)

	Traditional vs Simplified Information for Chinese Symbol Shirts
		To us, simplified Chinese characters just seem empty, missing something, lacking uh, character (sorry!) or soul.
		Traditional characters are still used for important ceremonies and for cultural purposes, such as calligraphy (and we believe for good reason!).
		Since our products are made with the intent to highlight the beauty of Chinese characters, we have purposely chosen to use traditional characters on all our items.
	www.buildingcharacters.com /traditional.html (194 words)

	Simplified Chinese Characters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Some examples of inconsistencies in the construction of Chinese characters which are confusing to people familiar with traditional characters.
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		This site is part of Chinese Character Genealogy.
	www.zhongwen.com /jian.htm (56 words)

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