Simplified Chinese characters

Published October 15, 2010 | By Bman

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While simplified characters are taught exclusively in schools, unlike in the People’s Republic of China, the government does not officially discourage the use of traditional characters. While all official publications are in simplified characters, the government still allows parents to choose whether to have their child’s Chinese name registered in simplified or traditional characters.

In Malaysia, as simplified characters are taught exclusively in Chinese schools since 1981, most younger Chinese Malaysians are proficient in simplified characters. As Chinese is not an official language in Malaysia, official usage of Chinese, and hence simplified characters, is rare.

As there is no restriction of the use of traditional characters in the mass media, television programmes, books, magazines and music CD’s that have been imported from Hong Kong or Taiwan are widely

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