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| delectric Diglot Senior Member China Joined 7181 days ago 608 posts - 733 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: German | Message 1 of 2 30 December 2007 at 4:30am | IP Logged |
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I was told that there was a 3rd set of Chinese characters in existence from I think 1976-1986 that were never fully adopted. The characters were a further simplification of the set used on the Chinese mainland. A student of mine gave me a presentation on the subject. He demonstrated some of the characters the 'zhan' in 'zhanlan' de 'zhan' that means 'exhibit' (sorry this computer doesn't have the character script enabled) was reduced to just the 'shi' radical that means 'body/corpse' with just a horizontal line to represent the bottom, more complex part of the charatcer. Apparently the Chinese people thought the characters were too 'ugly', so they never caught on.
I can't find anything about this reform on the internet! Just wondering if anyone else knows about this 3rd set of characters. I'm intrigued to know what other simplifications took place and the history behind it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Raincrowlee Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 6702 days ago 621 posts - 808 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Indonesian, Japanese | Message 2 of 2 30 December 2007 at 6:48am | IP Logged |
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Try here. Edited by Raincrowlee on 30 December 2007 at 6:49am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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