Simplified Chinese characters

Published October 15, 2010 | By Bman

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than where a complicated character is replaced by a newly-created simpler character. However, these characters are commonly considered to have been simplifications, so they are included here for reference purposes.

35 place names that have been modified to replace rare characters with more common ones. These are not character simplifications, because it is the place names that were being modified, not the characters themselves. One place name has since been reverted to its original version.

Di yi pi yitizi zhengli biao (“Series One Organization List of Variant Characters”) also accounts for some of the orthography difference between Mainland China on the one hand, and Hong Kong and Taiwan on the other. Although these are not technically “simplifications”, they are often regarded as such, because the end effect is the same. It contains:

1,027 variant

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