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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Simplified
//ˈsɪmplɪfaɪd//
Synonyms for "simplified" (3 found)
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13 translations across 12 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مُبَسَّط adj (made simpler)
Czech
1 entries- zjednodušený adj (made simpler)
Danish
1 entries- forenklet adj (made simpler)
Finnish
1 entries- yksinkertaistettu adj (made simpler)
German
1 entries- vereinfacht adj (made simpler)
Greek
1 entries- απλοποιημένος adj (made simpler)
Hungarian
1 entries- egyszerűsített adj (made simpler)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- forenkla adj (made simpler)
- forenklet adj (made simpler)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- forenkla adj (made simpler)
Russian
1 entries- упрощённый adj (made simpler)
Swedish
1 entries- förenklad adj (made simpler)
Ukrainian
1 entries- спро́щений adj (made simpler)
Sample sentences
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I prefer traditional characters. Due to the abundance of reading materials in simplified characters, I can recognize many of them too.
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I'm reading things like famous novels which have been rewritten in simplified French.
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What is the difference between simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese?
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