Background
According to Chinese palaeographer Qiu Xigui, the broadest trend in the evolution of Chinese characters over their history has been simpli… See more

Structural simplification of characters
1. All characters simplified this way are enumerated in Charts 1 and 2 of the 1986 Complete List of Simplified Characters[zh] (hereafter t… See more

The People's Republic of China and Singapore generally use simplified characters. They appear very sparingly in texts originating in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, an… See more

In general, schools in mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore use simplified characters exclusively, while schools in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan use traditional c… See more

In computer text applications, the GB encoding schememost often renders simplified Chinese characters, while Big5 most often renders traditional characters. Although n… See more