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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Simplification
//ˌsɪm.plɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən//
Synonyms for "simplification" (51 found)
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Related words (25)
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2 entriesderived from
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6 entriesTranslations
30 translations across 25 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- опростяване noun (act of simplifying)
Catalan
1 entries- simplificació noun (act of simplifying)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 簡化 /简化 noun (act of simplifying)
- 簡單化 /简单化 noun (act of simplifying)
Czech
1 entries- zjednodušení noun (act of simplifying)
Dutch
2 entries- vereenvoudiging noun (act of simplifying)
- versimpeling noun (act of simplifying)
Finnish
2 entries- pelkistys noun (act of simplifying)
- yksinkertaistus noun (act of simplifying)
French
1 entries- simplification noun (act of simplifying)
Galician
1 entries- simplificación noun (act of simplifying)
German
1 entries- Vereinfachung noun (act of simplifying)
Greek
2 entries- απλοποίηση noun (act of simplifying)
- απλούστευση noun (act of simplifying)
Hungarian
1 entries- egyszerűsítés noun (act of simplifying)
Italian
1 entries- semplificazione noun (act of simplifying)
Japanese
1 entries- 単純化 noun (act of simplifying)
Māori
1 entries- whakarūnātanga noun (act of simplifying)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- forenkling noun (act of simplifying)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- forenkling noun (act of simplifying)
Polish
1 entries- uproszczenie noun (act of simplifying)
Portuguese
1 entries- simplificação noun (act of simplifying)
Russian
1 entries- упроще́ние noun (act of simplifying)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- pojednostavljenje noun (act of simplifying)
Spanish
1 entries- simplificación noun (act of simplifying)
Swedish
1 entries- förenkling noun (act of simplifying)
Tagalog
2 entries- pagpayak noun (act of simplifying)
- pamayak noun (act of simplifying)
Turkish
1 entries- basitleştirme noun (act of simplifying)
Vietnamese
1 entries- sự đơn giản hóa noun (act of simplifying)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
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His theory is not amenable to simplification for laymen.
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The four pacts include simplification of visa and customs rules to boost trade and reduce tariff barriers.
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