簡gaan2體tai2

English

1. simplified form of Chinese characters, as opposed to traditional form 繁體|繁体[fan2 ti3]

Examples

• 由於中國有大量漢字，推廣簡體字嘅目的係淘汰複雜嘅繁體字，用易記嘅簡體字取代，從而提高識字率。

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• 这是简体字。

  This is simplified Chinese.

  Tatoeba · U2FS CC BY

• 如果我用简体中文输入“什么”，我希望找到的结果里也有“甚麼”。

  If I search for "什么" using Simplified Chinese, I expect to also see "甚麼" in the results.

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• 我偏愛繁體字。因為有大量的簡體字的閱讀材料，我也認識很多簡體字。

  I prefer traditional characters. Due to the abundance of reading materials in simplified characters, I can recognize many of them too.

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• 中國的漢字數量繁多，推行漢字簡化的目的，是把結構複雜的繁體字轉換成易學易記的簡體字，從而提高國民的識字水平。

  In China, there is a large number of characters, so the goal of the character simplification was to replace the complex traditional characters with easy to remember simplified characters and increase the literacy rate.

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