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Do mainland Chinese know traditional characters?
Originally Answered: What’s the status of traditional Chinese characters in mainland China today? Yes, most average people can indeed read them.
Do mainland Chinese understand traditional Chinese?
A small subset of this population—mostly older generations—can still understand Traditional Chinese. However, for the majority of Chinese-speakers in mainland China, texts translated into Traditional Chinese are likely to spark confusion.
Can people from mainland China read traditional Chinese?
There are a lot of people from mainland China and Chinese outside of countries where Chinese in the primary language who can also read traditional, but I have no clue on the numbers. Most people can get by more or less when reading the other character set because there are a lot of very standard substitutions.
Does mainland China use simplified or traditional characters?
Simplified Chinese is now used in Mainland China, Malaysia (in official publications), and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is used in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau. Chinese communities outside of China are now seeing a gradual shift to Simplified characters, most likely due to new immigrants from Mainland China.
Is Traditional Chinese and Mandarin the same?
Here’s the short answer: Mandarin is a form of the Chinese language. Some call it a dialect. Chinese is an umbrella language term that encompasses multiple dialects/languages, including Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, and more. Don’t worry, Mandarin is the most widely spoken.
What is Canton called today?
Guangzhou
Canton is now Guangzhou The city of Guangzhou, China was founded under the name Panyu in 214 BC.
Does mainland China use traditional Chinese characters or simplified?
Mainland Chinese typically use Simplified Chinese Characters, but Taiwan, Hong Kong, and others still use Traditional Chinese Characters. Simplified Chinese in Mainland China is a recent phenomenon and has only been incorporated nationally since the 1950s. That means, all Chinese written before 1950 was/is Traditional Chinese!
What is the difference between Japanese and Chinese characters?
In Japan, common characters are written in post-WWII Japan-specific simplified forms, while uncommon characters are written in Japanese traditional forms, which are virtually identical to Chinese traditional forms. In modern Chinese, most words are compounds written with two or more characters.
Are simplified Chinese characters legal in Hong Kong and Macau?
In Hong Kong and Macau, Traditional Chinese has been the legal written form since colonial times. In recent years, simplified Chinese characters in Hong Kong and Macau has appeared to accommodate Mainland Chinese tourists and immigrants.
How do you write Chinese characters in order?
There are eight basic rules of stroke order in writing a Chinese character: Horizontal strokes are written before vertical ones. Left-falling strokes are written before right-falling ones. Characters are written from top to bottom.