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繁体

fán tǐ

2-character word Traditional 繁體

What 繁体 means

1. traditional form of Chinese, as opposed to simplified form {简体|jiǎn tǐ}

The characters in 繁体

• 繁fáncomplicated; many; in great numbers
• 体tǐbody; form; style

Example sentences

• 这是繁体字。
  This is in Traditional Chinese characters.
• 我不会写繁体字，但我可以读。
  I cannot write traditional characters, but I am fine reading them.
• 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.

Words starting with 繁体

• 繁体字fán tǐ zìtraditional Chinese character