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简体字

jiǎn tǐ zì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 3-character word Traditional 簡體字

简体字 (jiǎn tǐ zì) means "simplified Chinese character, as opposed to traditional Chinese character 繁体字". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 简体字 means

1. simplified Chinese character, as opposed to traditional Chinese character {繁体字|fán tǐ zì}

The characters in 简体字

• 简jiǎnsimple; uncomplicated; letter
• 体tǐbody; form; style
• 字zìletter; symbol; character

Example sentences

• 这是简体字。
  This is simplified Chinese.
• 我偏爱繁体字。因为有大量的简体字的阅读材料，我也认识很多简体字。
  Wǒ piān'ài fántǐzì. yīnwèi yǒu dàliàng de jiǎntǐzì de yuèdú cáiliào, wǒ yě rènshi hěn duō jiǎntǐzì.
  I prefer traditional characters. Due to the abundance of reading materials in simplified characters, I can recognize many of them too.
• 中国的汉字数量繁多，推行汉字简化的目的，是把结构复杂的繁体字转换成易学易记的简体字，从而提高国民的识字水平。
  Zhōngguó de hànzì shùliàng fánduō, tuīxíng hànzì jiǎnhuà de mùdì, shì bǎ jiégòu fùzá de fántǐzì zhuǎnhuàn chéng yìxué yì jì de jiǎntǐzì, cóng'ér tígāo guómín de shízì shuǐpíng.
  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.

Where 简体字 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jiàn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jiǎn tǐ zì correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.