Talk:Simplified Chinese

Is Traditional Chinese really an antonym? I know nothing about Chinese, but it seems a bit strange that 2 nouns should be antonyms of one another. --Dangherous 10:15, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

簡化字 vs 簡體字

As I know those in Taiwan are more likely to call Simplified Chinese as '簡化字' rather than '簡體字'. Technically, '簡化'(Simplified) should be a better translation than '簡體'(Simple Form) for the word. Should this translation be added? -74.125.178.86 17:49, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Just now I referred the page on Chinese Wikipedia here, in the second paragraph, it writes:

兩岸民眾一般稱簡化字為「簡體字」，主要是乍看之下，簡化字在「字體」形象上很明顯的簡化了。同一漢字，簡化字通常比未簡化漢字（繁體字）的筆劃為少。其實簡化的兩個大原則，除了字體簡化以外，也包括經由淘汰「異體字」等方法，大量的把規範漢字的數量減縮。所以用「簡化字」來蓋稱中國大陸的規範漢字，比「簡體字」要貼切、正確。

Which points out '簡化字' should be more proper to be used than '簡體字'.

-74.125.178.24 17:58, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Added as synonyms. 簡化字 is not "better" but a synonym. --Anatoli ^{(обсудить)} 23:19, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

They mean exactly the same thing to me. Neither is better than the other. Whether one's *better* is all a matter of opinion. Jamesjiao → ^{T ◊ C} 00:03, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Can you not drag politics into this? Such a misformed person with a clear agenda. You all ignore another very neutral term: 规范字. It's just a matter of standardization. Many simplified characters have been used in calligraphy and are actually older than traditional characters. Anyone saying otherwise is obviously purely politically motivated and has no clue about how the Chinese script fundamentally works. Homophones replacing characters and taking over meanings as well as creating more complicated characters to differentiate new meanings have been usual practices for thousands of years. If you read more ancient texts, you will realize how many simple archaic characters were later split or supplanted by variant characters. --2001:16B8:3142:B200:F9E9:4FCA:9712:196A 21:02, 24 April 2020 (UTC)