简体字簡體字 in English
- simplified Chinese character, as opposed to traditional Chinese character 繁體字|繁体字[fan2 ti3 zi4]
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
简
These are the forms of 簡, the traditional character: 简 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
体
These are the forms of 體, the traditional character: 体 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
字
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Bronze script 商代晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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中国的汉字数量繁多，推行汉字简化的目的，是把结构复杂的繁体字转换成易学易记的简体字，从而提高国民的识字水平。
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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这是简体字。
This is simplified Chinese.