Traditional vs Simplified Chinese - what are their differences?
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- Опубліковано 13 лют 2020
- Many of you have asked us what are the differences between Simplified and Traditional Chinese and which one should I learn. We heard you! In this video, ShaoLan briefly introduces the history of how the Chinese language has been evolved, together with some examples of traditional and simplified Chinese characters.
Which one do you learn and why? Share with us what you think in comments.
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Which one do you learn and why? Share with us what you think in comments. 😉
I'm really interested in chinese culture, and since it has more complete and in depth meaning of the character, I prefer to use the traditional one.
I learn Chinese at school and my teacher is from North China so I'm learning the simplified characters.
I'm learning traditional Chinese :)
*b o t h*
I learn traditional Chinese cause I live in taiwan
I started learning with traditional characters only. I honestly don’t think traditional is harder than simplified, and it gives more pronunciation clues. I know 廣 rhymes with 黃 and 國 rhymes with 或.
Wow... they're very similar...
❤️
plus if you know traditional, you can more easily read simplified
switched from Simplified to Traditional. my literacy significantly improved since
👍
How's that so?
@@mayanlogos92 Traditional is a lot more consistent so you can guess words you don't know e.g. guo in Traditional for 過、鍋 whereas guo in Simplified for 过、锅. the latter 2 look totally different from one another
@@kylin3197 then the improved literacy prob. isnt that good for u coz ur still guessing words instead of actually learning them.
@@deezem5294 If they see it somewhere, it'll be easier to idenity / pronounce because it looks similar to another character they already know.
I feel that traditional Chinese is much easier. Meanings are much more complete and most of the characters retain their phonetic clues. Aside from the fact that they take slightly longer to write, it also makes the language much less ambiguous e.g 麵 and 面, and 雨 and 雲. Traditional distinguishes the RADICAL from the CHARACTER.
And to top it off, many people use pinyin to type anyway.
that's your opinion, Simplified Chinese is more useful
@@user-kf7kp6ev4t how is it more useful?
@@saramohamed.8403 Simple, easy to learn, convenient, popular, and China is a powerful influence country.
also its prettier
The promotion of simplified characters is to increase the literacy rate. This is especially true for foreigners. The learning of traditional characters will increase the difficulty. This is why Singapore chooses to simplify Chinese characters. Singapore is an English-speaking country, if residents want to learn Chinese characters, in order to reduce the pressure on students, they naturally choose simplified characters
Simplified one for 99.9% of the Chinese speaking world including the People's Republic of China.
Traditional if you are moving/working/studying in say; Hong Kong, Taiwan or Singapore, or want to read signs in Cantonese in the USA or Canada.
I read traditional cause im from hong kong lol
@@deaconnn_ You read both because you are from China too lol.
Singapore and Malaysia uses Simplified Chinese.
MimiXtinaChelleKRow I heard they have their own version of simplified.
ThatDutchguy
yes but actually no
im from hk too and we learn using traditional chinese, but i know there are other schools that use simplified and not traditional, so schoolchildren learn using one or the other(traditional in my case).
Everybody, pay attention,
simplified chinese =\= mandarin, traditional chinese=\= cantonese. simplified or traditional is the difference in writing, while mandarin and cantonese is the difference in pronounciation.
mainlan china, singapore, malaysia------simplified, mandarin
taiwan-----traditional, mandarin
hongkong-----traditional, cantonese
Japanese has both simplified and traditional chinese characters.
Malaysia kinda mixed. We use both
@@ngenglee149 other things
Yes, traditional Chinese is also used in Taiwan
@@user-vl8yy4od3k
yes
I wished for your answer on this subject. It is good to know that in chineasy there's both versions. I'm for the traditional ones, 'cause I think they are more stylish and I like traditional stuff. :)
By the way, I bought brushes and ink to learn how to write down the characters. It is so soft to write with brushes that I don't want to use pen anymore lol! Anyway... Much love from Brazil! 再見!
西正信 您好
Estamos em todos os lugares haha. Como tu aprendeu o chinês?
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This was so helpful, thank you!
So eloquently explained and the historical background was very interesting. Thank you.
I love your application and recommended it to all my friends. We all are learning Chinese together now.
Hi,
We're so glad to hear that you are enjoying the Chineasy app. Thank you for recommending us to your friends as well! :)
Thank you! Wonderful content!
Wow, I just discovered this channel. I must say it is a great source of information about Chinese culture. I love it
Hi, we have more lessons like this in the Chineasy app. It's free to download and the first 8 levels are free to play. Give it a try! :)
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I prefer traditional because more meaningful and easy to read somehow because more sense...
Very Informative. Thank You for taking the time to make this video
Hi, we're thrilled that you like the video. We have more video lessons in the Chineasy app. It's free to download, and the first 8 levels are free to play. :) Hope you'll like it, too.
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One example is the word for turtle. In traditional, it looks like this: 龜, that may look complicated but if you look closely it makes some sense. You can kind of see some feet of the left and a shell on the top like a turtle. But the simplified version removed all meaning, it lookes like 龟
Exactly, I'd rather have it complicated, take a little more time and get it right than do it the easy way and not really get as much out of my studies.
Excellent explanation 👌🏻 very interesting!
What seemed to be the case for characters like door and horse was that they took the commonly used cursive script and made it fit the rules of the regular script.
I studied traditional as a kid, but in college switched to simplified. I feel that simplified is a lot more practical but traditional serves as a more accurate reflection into Chinese culture and thought by the combination of radicals. It also helps bridge the common culture China shares with with Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Simplified is more ethnocentric in that respect.
Did you know, Japan uses their own set of characters (shinjitai 新字体) which is sort of a middle way between Traditional and Simplified.
Most "simplified" characters came from the calligraphy form of 草书. In fact the character "书" is a very good example. Most Chinese people don't even know that because calligraphy is mostly reduced to an art thesedays, especially the 草书 form, and because simplified is used in the mainland people just assume its some kind of propaganda tool but its far from the truth. Don't feel bad about using either because both forms are equally traditional and both have a rich history behind it.
Thanks that was very useful. 👍
hello .I am trying to learn both forms because i like traditional chinese characters more than others. they are just beautiful.
Helped me a lot ! 👍
Hi Gabriel, we have more engaging video lessons in the Chineasy app. It's free to download and the first 8 levels are free to play. Hope you'll like it, too!
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some characters were merge because they have similar pronunciation in mandarin, but sometimes it differ in other chinese language like cantonese, hokkien etc
Im currently studying chinese language now . My teacher teach me the simplified chinese first then the traditional
Its my 3 weeks learning chinese and i got compliment by my teacher about my neat chinese handwriting !
Good luck my friend.
Traditional because although it's not easy to write it is much more intuitive, at least to me.
Also simplified came from CCP meddling lol
Thank you very much for the history class. I can finally understand better the chinese language. I enjoy watching your videos and have to say that you make learning characters way easier and fun😘😘😘😘
Thank you! Let us know what topic you're interested in learning more. :)
My answer for you: *Learn It All*
Let us put it this way: 簡體字 gives you the feeling like if you where standing in front of a very nicely embroided silk cloth damaged by moths. With 繁體字 you watch that same silk embroidery in its pristine beauty. I began learning 繁體，later I went to 大陸 and was kind of "encouraged by teachers" to write 簡體， at the end I got messed up and wrote many caracters that didn't exist (in those times there was no internet, we used pen and paper to write). So I sorted myself and decided to only write in 繁體字。I can read 簡體字 but if I can choose, the reading is much more comfortable in 繁體字 for me. And by the way, to write fonologicaly zhuyin fuhao is more aesthetic, authentic and accurate than latin based pinyin. Foreigners tend to pronounce the latin pinyin letters like the latin letters in their mother tongues, which does not really help for learning the correct pronunciation. The same happens to chinese the other way round when they learn a foreign language....
I like the metaphor you used to compare the two Chinese scripts!
I'm so glad I accidently bumped into the Chinese ways of saying traditional and simplified while on a google search before seeing this comment
About zhuyin & pinyin you're right... pinyin* definitely doesn't help the pronunciation. I've found a chart online and ith I'll learn zhuyin so later on I'll be able to learn the sounds of a character with the help of zhyin :)) pinyin really makes things more confusing instead of making them easier. Hey. Do you have Facebook or Instagram or twitter? Could I add you on at least one of them. I'd love to learn from you...
But do tastatures use zhuyin instead of pinyin?
Sir, I respect your choice. But, in fact, Pinyin (roman alphabet phonetic system) was invented over 200 years earlier than Zhuyin Fuhao. Please dig deeper before saying something you have no clear clues.
Fun fact: there are actually two versions of simplified Chinese and you may find some older generations in mainland China are still using the first version of simplified Chinese. For example, my grandpa will write my name in “traditional Chinese characters” but it's actually the first version of simplified Chinese. The first version of simplified Chinese was actually promoted by the "republic of china government" (so maybe in Taiwan you are actually using it instead of real "traditional Chinese") The reason behind using the simplified version in mainland china is to make writing easier. Back in the time when mainland china finally ended the war, almost 80-90 % of people cannot read or write, so it's important to raise literacy. This is the time government started to design the new simplified Chinese.
They didn't design anything XD Most of the simplified stuff is just random scribbles from Cursive. Sure, it's easier to write, but a lot of meaning is lost. So much so that Japanese and Taiwanese can't read 簡体字.
@@danielantony1882 Kanji in Japan also has many simplified characters.xD
@@Ricky0122 They are not as simple as 簡体字. They much more recognizable.
thanks for the history lesson
I swear I have just been wondering about this particular subject when this video popped up😂😂
Fahed Sankari OMG SAME i was thinking about learning chinese the moment before i saw this in my notifications
Literally same
Google is watching and listening everything🤯
Thank you so much . I am currently learning Simplified chinese(mandarin) but I will gradually also start Traditioanal chinese (cantonese). Just keep uploading videos . Watching a video of yours give me a lot of motivation to keep learning chinese and practicing other languages .. I cannot thank enough ...
Hi, May i ask what apps do you use.
pay attention, simplified chinese =\= mandarin, traditional chinese=\= cantonese. simplified or traditional is the difference in writing, while mandarin and cantonese is the difference in pronounciation.
mainlan china, singapore, malaysia------simplified, mandarin
taiwan-----traditional, mandarin
hongkong-----traditional, cantonese
i wish i knew that before i started learning slimplified, now i already got used with simple forms, but i can learn the tradicional form in the future, thank you for the explanation.
Hi, we teach both traditional and simplified Chinese in the Chineasy app. It's free to download, and the first 8 levels are free to play. Hope you'll like it. :)
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@@ChineasybyShaoLan oh thank you, i appreciate it😁.
I chose traditional form so that it could sync with my hanja learning ✌🏻which could be helpful for my Korean.
Yes
谢谢，老师。
謝謝，老師。
It's like saying which you should learn, American English or British English. It's the same language just spoken, or in this case written slightly differently and most Chinese can read both Simplified and Traditional.
Her accent is so peculiar and nice to hear (British-chinese)
IMPORTANT TO KNOW. of the 3500 most commonly used characters ( if you know this much you can read 99.5% of characters in media in china ) only 30% have a simplified written version. So if you say yoo want to learn traditional you learn 100 % traditional . When you say you want to learn simplified what you learn is about 70 % traditional and about 30 % is simplified.
你在开玩笑吗？百分之100 传统文化？繁体字是旧的文字。现在大部分使用是简体字而且更好看容易记。繁体字不是汉字一开始的文字它也是从甲骨文简化出来的。文字是用来沟通不是专注于文化体现。如果你已经不认同自己的人种请问怎么样体现文化意义… 甲骨文才是真正的汉语。
@@user-lp8gc1qq4w WHEN I SAY TRADITIONAL I MEAN THE WRITTEN CHINESE IN TAIWAN. IS WAY BETTER THAN THE SIMPLIFIED VERSION USED IN CHINA. SIMPLIFIED MAKES IT EASIER TO REMEMBER BUT ITS NOT AS PRETTY ALSO WITH THE TRADTIONAL THERE ARE CHARACTERS THAT YOU MAY NOT KNOW WHAT IT IS BUT ABLE TO KNOW ITS MEANING BECAUSE OF HOW IT IS CONSTRUCTED .
@@yutuberboy 笔画更多你说更容易记。你有点好笑。甲骨文才是一开始真正的文字而且也是最有意义的。一个道理你学繁体字你会甲骨文吗？文字是主要用于沟通因为繁体字在1950年代以后就很少使用了而且要明白一样东西繁体字并不是真正的汉字。一个文字经历了古代到现在怎么可能还会有百分之百的文化意义那倒不是吗？不管哪个国家有那个国家的文字是从一开始保留的现在？还不是每个朝代都在改变。学习是要方便这是肯定的。繁体字并不是源自台湾而是台湾人使用繁体字。不管繁体简体都是源自于中国。如果你连自己的国籍历史文化都不懂都不敢承认请问你就算会繁体字又有什么用？这是我老师告诉我的。它也是从古代汉族简化来并不是真正的汉字又怎么样有百分之百的意义？而且不会有太多人跑去通过文字去了解？而是全面了解你想知道的东西。文字是随着朝代都改变的不然的话你们也不可能会学繁体字了因为它并不是真正的文字。简体字也是用字符构成出来的而且更方便更漂亮。看起来更舒服。繁体字笔画多看了会乱。我只是实话实说问题就在于个人怎么看了不存在比较性。如果用在比如春联或者的雕塑我会觉得繁体字比较适合原因是因为它用在于以前的传统东西。
@@user-lp8gc1qq4w NOPE WHAT IS SAID IS SIMPLIFIED IS EASIER TO REMEMBER BUT ITS NOT AS PRETTY ALSO ........ READ IT AGAIN YOU GOT IT WRONG.. THE TRADITIONAL TEXT USED IN TAIWAN IS CLOSER TO THE ORIGINAL THAN THE SIMPLIFIED USED IN CHINA THAT SHOULD BE COMMON SENSE. I NEVER SAID THAT THE TEXT USED IN TAIWAN WAS CREATED IN TAIWAN .IT CAME FROM CHINA THE COMMUNIST SIMPLIFIED IT AND THAT IS WHAT IS USED IN CHINA NOW. SIMPLIFIED FOR EASE OF WRITING AND EASIER TO REMBER i AGREE BUT THE BEAUTY AND THE ESSENCE OF THE CHARACTERS ARE LOST AS WELL. . THE CHINESE TEXT USED IN TAIWAN AS YOU SAID iS SIMPLFIED/ALTERED COMPARED TO THE ORACLE BONE INSCRIPTION , WHICH I AGREE BUT IN CHINA THEY SIMPLFIED IT EVEN MORE AND THUS IT MADE IS LOOSE EVEN MORE OF ITS BEAUTY AND ESSENSE. YOU WROTE 不管繁体简体都是源自于中国。如果你连自己的国籍历史文化都不懂都不敢承认请问你就算会繁体字又有什么用 ? WHY DO YOU ASSUME I AM TAIWANESE ? I AM NOT . MY ETHNICITY IS CHINESE BUT I AM NOT FROM TAIWAN . YOU SEE WHEN PEOPLE SAY THEY PREFER TO LEARN CHINESE TRADITIONAL CHARACTERS THAT THEY CAN USE IN TODAYS WORLD THEY ARE REFERING TRADITONAL CHARACTERS USED IN TAIWAN AS OPPOSED TO THE MORE SIMPLIFED VERSIONN IN CHINA
Japan uses a mix of both
Country(koku,Simplified)
Horse(uma,Traditional)
I prefer traditional one, I learned traditional when I lived at Taiwan. And to tell the truth it is more meaningful and easier to recall as long as you get good imagination, I find it hard to recognize and differ simplified sometimes. Somehow the more strokes I need to write one character, it makes me calmer. 哈哈哈
But writing more strokes becomes troublesome when you have less than an hour to write a 500 word essay
@@yuehjoly556 That's true. Several times I forgot one or two strokes for character I wrote and it changed the meaning entirely. It's relaxing when you have time to write and use it for recreational activity
@@yuehjoly556
Damn yall write 500 word essays??
nice
Simplified bcs its easy to write and memorize
2:08
Did she say 漢字(kanji)?
2:57
Actually, they still both have 猪 and 豬, means "wild pig" especially in the mountain.
猪 is the simplified form of 豬.
And "Domesticated Pig" for 豚.
at 2:08 she said country
greetings from libya! :D
您很厉害！我爱学习普通话，但是传统汉字非常漂亮
I feel traditional is harder. There is a reason why Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese all stopped using traditional Chinese characters as part of their written language. Simplified Chinese just followed suit.
As a student, I prefer simplified Chinese. It’s easier to write and memorise. I don’t really care about meaning or symbolism I just want to pass.
Good luck with your studies! :)
Agree !
In Japan they use also traditional ones right?
they use mix of both.
they mix everything, traditional, simplified, english, even japanese
You all should learn simplified. I'm avg at like simplified but I can still read traditional. Plus simplified is going to be way easier to write (and learn)
To be honest, I use traditional Chinese because it is the normal form of Chinese characters and it makes a lot sense to me by their characters’ structure and radicals.
I'm learning traditional because I want to move to Taiwan when I'm older and I think traditional characters are beautiful
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By the time you get older are you sure Taiwan will be untouched by its neighbors?
@@AwakenZen tell me more
@@void7656 You gotta be kidding me right? Don't act silly man
@@AwakenZen no
When you write traditional, you write out of a thousand plus years of evolution that is shaped by culture, stories, poetic meanings behind them. You appreciate and feel it. Whereas writing in simplified is more of an engineered process where all meaning is lost and doesn't really help further anyone's appreciation for the language. It's devoid of anything of value. By learning traditional, you will come to have a deeper foundation of written Chinese, and will be able to guess simplified characters better. The same is not true vice versa.
That's just your personal feelings. Most of simplified Chinese characters was tracable back to 2000 years also. Nothing about engineering.
When you write English words, does that give you a feeling of engineering also? Coz modern English is quite different from ancient English when Shakepear was still alive.
@@saxson911 shakespeare uses modern english
麵 vs. 面
雲 vs. 云
I’ve always been curious:
How did the character “衛” (as in, 衛生 的 衛) become simplified into becoming “卫”??
Though I’ve grown up learning the simplified characters (make a guess where I’m from!), I feel that the traditional characters bring out more, no pun intended, character and culture into the appreciation for the evolution of the chinese language.
And yes, admittedly, learning chinese by rote (i.e. being forced to write and memorise thousands of characters, sadly mostly under duress) - instead of making meaningful connection of the words we write and use - made me resentful learning Chinese in my formative years.
Thus, I still think that Chinese people should learn the traditional characters, like the Taiwan and Hong Kong people do.
What is the point to learn when you can already understand?
Many simplified characters don’t make sense
A bit more,
The current Pinyin system used in mainland China is developed by the Chinese Communist Party in the 1950s after attempts to Latinize Chinese characters. Records of this can be seem starting in the 1930s in Yan’an. Communist Party members such as Qu Qiubai actually went to the USSR in the early 1930s to work with sinologists, he later published a book called “Chinese Latinized Characters”.
The simplification of Chinese characters was done, after the Communist party realized it was impossible to Latinize Chinese characters in China. This is similar to how the Chinese Communist Party tried to reduce the Mongolian language used in inner Mongolia last year by introducing simplified Chinese textbooks instead. These attempts are to disconnect a group of people from its past culture, in order to secure ruling power. Similarly, the Vietnamese language today was Latinized by the French, and is vastly different from its past form.
It comes from the seldomly-used Japanese katakana ヱ, which is pronounced as "weh"
I agree, as a Taiwan myself I think people should learn traditional instead of simplified, so that it’s not really confusing lol
Where do I learn semplified chinese?
Hi, we teach both simplified and traditional in our app and you can choose which one you prefer to learn. Our app is free to download and first 8 levels are free to try. Give it a try! :) www.chineasy.com/learn/app/
Bro all I want to know is what is Duolingo teaching me 😂
most likely simplified
Duolingo teaches Mandarin and not Cantonese so they use Simplified characters
Duolingo teaches simplified
@@Ahn-mu3db do people in china use traditional the most or simplified
@@pearlykitty108 They mostly use simplified.
traditional is easier to learn somehow ;D
I suppose simplification isn't so simple anymore
Simplifiedbeacuse in PRC and easy
😍
I use traditional 馬 because me at small I choose traditional.
Can someone Chinese or Taiwanese tell me should I learn Simplified or Traditional? I love to communicate with Taiwanese but in my country, Chinese companies are more than Taiwanese. So, I don't know what to do.
Hi, traditional Chinese characters are used in Taiwan. In the app, users can choose which Chinese written form they'd like to learn. You can follow the steps here: chineasy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4405588437913-How-do-I-switch-between-learning-traditional-and-simplified-characters-
I think Chinese Simplified is the most used in this day.
Yes In Shanghai
i like your katakana name.
Well Mandarin relies more on simplified nowadays as its most used in the Mainland... ik it from Skritter
But for some reasons is very difficult find traditional chinese movies my God. thankfully I am studying traditional one.
People who speak simplified and traditional Chinese, can they understand each other? And What does mandarin mean?
Yes, they can understand each other. The difference between simplified and traditional Chinese is the written language, not the spoken. To find out what Mandarin means, feel free to check out our blog post. :)
www.chineasy.com/whats-the-chinese-language-some-frequently-asked-questions-from-learners-worldwide/
@@ChineasybyShaoLan thank you Now it becomes clear🥰
You're welcome. :)
oh really lookinh hen hao
If you love Chinese pop culture, which most of the time you’re gonna find that it’s from Taiwan, I think, traditional is way more helpful. If you want to learn how to write, try simplified.
Imm
Hi! very great job but sound, try with a good microphone, please. Thank you.
Jimmy Olano Hey Jimmy, thanks for the suggestion. We’ll improve the audio quality next time :)
write using two u, u and l,to form 出 凹
巾帼 离 山 巨 叵 匠 臣.using handphone software, as long write 70% similar word will appear
Using ー，ニ Ι ‘, to form 牛(cow) to expand into other words. 车(car)件(piece)特 半(half) 牺牲(Sacrifice. ) 生 东using handphone software, as long write 70% similar word will appear
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Hi Kaab, thank you for the feedback. We'll keep working on it!
what a awesome lady you are ......i like very much
China:Simplified
Japan:Japanese
Korea:Traditional
Traditional feels like Ancient Chinese writing
A better example of how writing medium changes writing. Cursive scripts which involve not lifting the pen until the end of a word were developed for alphabetic scripts only after better pen technology made it possible to draw a longer line without reapplying ink in between each character. Prior to this latin characters were always separated, which is why on ancient Greek and Roman buildings and writings you don't see any cursive.
script
official:traditional
special:simplified
script
official:traditional-public government
special:simplified-private business
Simplified Chinese would be a smarter choice - 1 billion or more people vs Taiwan, Hk, Macao population. Traditional Chinese has more strokes therefore heavy workload on the brain. One learn Mandarin to communicate not for sentimentality the reason many give for choosing Traditional Chinese - " original chinese " . Chinese Characters had undergone so many changes through the centuries. If they were presented with the " original chinese" they wouldn't know what to make of it. In conclusion, Simplified Chinese is a smarter choice.
for me the traditional is the real chinese symbolic to be patriotic and the simplified is symbolic to the western culture
I recommend you not to bully yourself. Learning simplified Chinese can transform your Chinese language ability to a practical skill as 99.9% of Chinese can read simplified Chinese. If you have certain artistcs pursuit, you can start from traditional Chinese, but that doubles your study load and you will quickly feel frasturated.
Me:how bout I learn "traditional Chinese"
no, simplified, because simplified chinese in ma has three strokes, and traditional chinese in ma has nine strokes, so the answer is simplified chinese!
*Why "mother" is written as "woman horse"?*
GUILLERMO SILVA SILVA Because mothers are as strong as a horse!!!! (I’m just guessing ）
The "horse" part is used as a phonetic hint. Horse is "ma3", similar to mother "ma1". So the character tells you that it's a word pronounced like horse, but has something to do with a woman, so it's mother, "ma1".
@@victorchen5663 *Oh, yes, that's a smart explanation. Thank you, Mr Chen. I presume the same applies to father, that's written **_man snake_** .*
母 and 馬 ?
completely different.
@@user-zm1xo8je6k he is talking about 媽
Traditional may LOOK harder but if you go to places like Hong Kong, give yourself a pat on the back buddy
This woman is gorgeous...just saying....
I love simplified Chinese characters
Some languages are unnecessarily too hard.
Chinese is easy for me
some people are unnecessary too stupid.
哈哈!我故意給寫簡體的人寫繁體, 我也给写繁体的人写简体。
Simplified all the way.🙏
Why is she so far away now,???
don't waste time yall traditional is mostly used in taiwan and you can still kinda understand trad if you know simpl
Bruh, what is the point to learn the tradional characters when you can understand pretty much all of them
It depends on what the language Chinese means to you, if it's just a tool for communication, then knowing only simplified characters would be enough. But if you ever want to learn more about the language (have you ever think about how is the character "头" represents head?), traditional characters is the way to go.
㑦唳悷捩、淚（泪）、棙䓞睙綟蜧錑
為什麼獨嫌「淚」字繁難？其他筆劃數不比淚字少也同樣含有「戾」的相關文字尚能保留，不以為寫起來麻煩，為什麼單單對「淚」字痛下毒手？
「泪」字看起来似乎有理，目之水，我想只有演員戲子才適合流這種淚吧，簡直是將億萬群眾當白癡般地愚弄！眼淚不因委屈（戾）流而因眼睛（目）生，「泪」倒像是替裝哭扮泣製造的文字。「淚」字還有眼淚以外的意思（寒涼貌、疾流貌），也隨著簡化的「泪」字被磨滅掉了，或簡化的「泪」字更難解釋得通了。簡化了一個「淚」字，其他筆畫數不比「淚」少的含「戾」的字卻不能免於學習使用。「泪」字變成一個異類，既不能像「淚」一樣同其他含「戾」的形聲字聯想記憶，又和其他含「目」的會意字相衝突混淆，實是多此一舉、徒添一亂而已。目在字中，動則視物（相），靜則象形（貝），挪作旁用（泪）則不通矣。
簡化字割裂文化傳承，破壞文字系統可見一斑！
簡化字就是從潛意識的層面使人無法正常思考，就是愚民、惑民、弱民、亂民的工具！
Using ㄣ to expend 与,马写鸟与吗妈 鸟,乌鸦呜. ㄣ denote bird leg, or horse, pen .counter check with handphone keyboard
Kanji differences
All different
Simplified different
Traditional different
Japanese different
All the same
I'd learn traditional if it isn't so hard to find study materials for it.
traditional looks like japanese
SIMPlified.
We will all switch to Romanized letters but have computers which know both the simplified and traditional Chinese to translate old texts for us and make all old texts available for free on the internet. That is the only fair, just thing to do.