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I'm not sure what you mean: are you claiming that... > While hand writing traditional Chinese is harder, more complicated characters are made of other characte
by lifthrasiir 6y ago
I'm not sure what you mean: are you claiming that...
> While hand writing traditional Chinese is harder, more complicated characters are made of other characters with a related meaning.
..."traditional" characters (which do not equal to Japanese Shinjitai!) is easier to write but harder to read, or...
> It's easy to read simplified, but not so great the other way around.
...it's easier to read but harder to write?
There is some truth in your claim: simplification does discard some context and can be harder to read. But that's only the case for irregular cases (notable example being 漢 to 汉). In many cases they are highly systematic and phono-semantic roots are preserved (e.g. 訁 to 讠, so no information is lost), or characters are so frequently used that you will have to memorize anyway (e.g. 飛 to 飞). Pronunciation-based simplification (e.g. 後 after, behind to 后 empress) is debatable, but it also tends to occur in frequently used characters.
- chaostheory 6y agoSorry, I didn't realize that the Japanese simplified kanji. > ...it's easier to read but harder to write? Harder to write because you have more lines and characters to draw. Harder to read because there are less sub-characters due to there being less lines. Judging from what you wrote, you probably understand my point just adding it just in case. Yeah, I've been gone a long time and I've been assimilated i.e. I don't read and write often anymore so you're probably right. > or characters are so frequently used that you will have to memorize anyway This is why I feel it makes it harder, especially for less common words. It's just more unnecessary work.