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writerofscratch · 12 days

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linghxr · 2 months

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10 traditional characters that I didn't know existed

In 2023 I started learning to write traditional characters by hand, so I've been paying extra attention to differences between traditional and simplified forms. In some cases, I didn't even realize the traditional and simplified forms were different!

Here are 10 sets of simplified and traditional characters with subtle differences, 8 of which I only discovered recently. Definitions are adapted from MDBG.

（1）抛 | 拋 pāo

The difference is SO subtle with this one. I have to hold the screen 3 inches from my face to see it. The simplified version has 7 strokes, but the traditional version has 8.

抛 | 拋 pāo - to throw / to toss / to fling / to cast / to abandon

抛弃 | 拋棄 pāoqì - to abandon / to discard / to renounce / to dump (sb) 抛开 | 拋開 pāokāi - to throw out / to get rid of 抛物线 | 拋物線 pāowùxiàn - parabola

（2）滚 | 滾 gǔn

I actually prefer the traditional version, particularly when I'm writing by hand. When I write the simplified version, the 衣 strokes on the bottom always looks awkward under 公 to me.

滚 | 滾 gǔn - to boil / to roll / to take a hike / get lost!

摇滚 | 搖滾 yáogǔn - rock 'n' roll (music) / to rock / to fall off 滚开 | 滾開 gǔnkāi - to boil (of liquid) / boiling hot / Get out! / Go away! 滚烫 | 滾燙 gǔntàng - boiling / scalding 打滚 | 打滾 dǎgǔn - to roll about

（3）匀 | 勻 yún

I think these look pretty much the same when handwritten, but on the computer they are distinct. I definitely prefer how the simplified one looks.

匀 | 勻 yún - even / well-distributed / uniform / to distribute evenly / to share

均匀 | 均勻 jūnyún - even / well-distributed / homogeneous / well-proportioned (figure, body etc)

（4）叙 | 敘 xù

叙 | 敘 xù - to narrate / to chat

叙述 | 敘述 xùshù - to relate (a story or information) / to tell or talk about / to recount / narration / telling / narrative / account 叙事 | 敘事 xùshì - narrative

（5）奥 | 奧 ào

奥 | 奧 ào - obscure / mysterious

It really bugs me that 奥 has a different traditional form, but 澳 (as in 澳门 Macao) does not!

深奥 | 深奧 shēn'ào - profound / abstruse / recondite / profoundly 奥运会 | 奧運會 Àoyùnhuì - Olympic Games; the Olympics (abbr. for 奥林匹克运动会 | 奧林匹克運動會) 奥利给 | 奧利給 àolìgěi - come on, you can do it!

（6）厨 | 廚 chú

厨 | 廚 chú - kitchen

厨房 | 廚房 chúfáng - kitchen 厨师 | 廚師 chúshī - cook / chef 厨艺 | 廚藝 chúyì - cooking skills / culinary talent

Other similar cases: 厮 | 廝 sī - (bound form) together; each other / (bound form) male servant / (bound form) dude; so-and-so 厢 | 廂 xiāng - box (in theater) / side room / side 厦 | 廈 shà - tall building / mansion / rear annex / lean-to / also pr. xià

（7）刹 | 剎 chà/shā

Whether the bottom looks like 朩 or 木 seems to be somewhat stylistic and can vary by font. But the little 点 is a consistent difference.

刹 | 剎 chà - used to transcribe several words originally from Sanskrit

刹那 | 剎那 chànà - an instant (Sanskrit: ksana); split second; the twinkling of an eye

刹 | 剎 shā - to brake

刹车 | 剎車 shāchē - to brake (when driving) / to stop / to switch off / to check (bad habits) / a brake

（8）侣 | 侶 lǚ

侣 | 侶 lǚ - companion

伴侣 | 伴侶 bànlǚ - companion / mate / partner 情侣 | 情侶 qínglǚ - sweethearts / lovers

Other similar cases: 宫 | 宮 gōng - palace / temple / castration (as corporal punishment) / first note in pentatonic scale 吕 | 呂 lǚ - pitchpipe, pitch standard, one of the twelve semitones in the traditional tone system / surname Lǚ

（9）别 | 別 bié

I've known about the traditional form of this character for a while now, but to be honest, it still looks like 别 written incorrectly to me...sorry.

别 | 別 bié - to leave; to part (from) / (literary) to differentiate; to distinguish / (bound form) other; another; different / don't …! / to fasten with a pin or clip / to stick in; to insert (in order to hinder movement) / (noun suffix) category

差别 | 差別 chābié - difference; distinction; disparity 分别 | 分別 fēnbié - to part; to leave each other / to distinguish; to tell apart / difference; distinction / in different ways; differently / separately; individually 区别 | 區別 qūbié - difference / to distinguish / to discriminate / to make a distinction 性别 | 性別 xìngbié - gender / sex 个别 | 個別 gèbié - individually; one by one / just one or two; exceptional; rare

（10）丢 | 丟 diū

OK, I literally just realized there are separate simplified and traditional forms for this character while working on this post 😭 I feel utterly betrayed.

丢 | 丟 diū - to lose / to put aside / to throw

See similar posts: Characters I used to write incorrectly Characters that look TOO similar Traditional characters that haunt me

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dailyfigures · 5 months

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Wei Wuxian & Lan WangJi ; Mo Dao Zu Shi ☆ Hobby Rangers

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misfitreferences · 23 days

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Need a Chinese name?

Try some of these resources:

Righteous Blood, Ruthless Blades Naming Conventions Manual

Yabla: Online Pinyin Dictionary (search the keyword “surname” and you will get surname recommendations)

Choose a Name by how many Strokes are in it

Mandarin Chinese Character Generator

Evolution of Han Chinese Names

Please feel free to add more!

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virtuastreetfighting-world5000 · 3 months

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Chun-Li instructions "Street Fighter II: Yomigaeru Fujiwara-kyō"

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artemissky · 1 year

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Till the end of the moon

Ins: artemis.sky

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aja-aja-hanja · 6 months

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必 bi4 필

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It is necessary to follow your 丿일 one and only 心 심 heart to live a happy life.

Study vocab here!

Vocab:

필시 Certainly

필히 Surely

필승 Certain victory

\필요* Necessity

필요하다 to need (I need, we need, etc)

필요있다 to be necessary

필수** Being essential

필수과목 required course

필수조건 essential condition

필수품. Necessities

필연적. Inevitable

필사적 Desperate/dire

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hsinnii · 23 days

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suggestions and advice on how to remember and memorize characters? it's the part I'm finding the most difficult

i struggle w this too rn bc of the pace my professor has been going at. if you dont have a practice workbook i def recommend those bc they show the stroke order and just give space for you to write repetitively. otherwise just try and write sentences using the characters/words you know or generally practice writing/reading as much as possible.

i like skritter a lot for practicing characters or learning new vocabulary related to things im actually interested in and would talk about in real life rather than a lot of the stuff ill learn in class.

because of the lack of alphabet a lot of people (me included) tend to rely heavily on pinyin but since ive started learning zhuyin i’ve definitely felt it helps. not having romanization means i have to actually try and cant just fall back and give up like i would if something was shown only in characters + pinyin.

i specifically like using my ipad or an external monitor when im studying characters so i can blow up the characters and look at them like an image rather than a letter (im learning traditional these little things have so many strokes i like to make sure i can see/recognize all of them) then also i feel like it stays better as a visual in my brain.

im still taking elementary level mandarin so realistically i dont know all that much, only what ive been trying and what works for me if anyone else has tips pls feel free to reply

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ksmaggie · 8 months

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Common Chinese characters part 1-3 part 4 part 5 part 6-9 (you are here)

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marilearnsmandarin · 2 months

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So... I'm practicing some characters from New Practical Chinese Reader 3...

(Some are very wonky because I was trying to hold the brush marker like you should hold a Chinese calligraphy brush)

For some reason I got obsessed with writing 建. Maybe it's the 4 horizontal strokes... I had been doing the stroke order wrong, and now it's so quick and easy to write it, I've been having actual fun trying to write it faster and faster (though I could have chosen a better pen).

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slavic-roots-western-mind · 1 month

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The V for Ü trick

I only recently discovered that you can type in v to get the letter ü when typing in the pinyin for chinese characters.

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arleniansdoodles · 4 months

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This is based on a Youtube short that I wanted to try drawing but didn't get around to it until now! Thanks @baby-prince-oppa for the inspiration :D

So here we have Yang and the fem!MC from Sifu, as usual! I think it's pretty self-explanatory given MC's backstory, but for those who don't know, MC loses her family at a young age (by Yang's doing) and appears to be the only one left alive. Their conversations in my fanfic are pretty much this in a nutshell loll

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linghxr · 6 months

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When you don't recognize a familiar character

Due to different fonts, styles, and variants, sometimes it's hard to recognize a character that you thought you knew well. I collected 3 examples that I've personally encountered online. Let's take a look~

Below, the character in the blue bubble shows what I'm used to seeing.

令 lìng

If you look at Wiktionary, you will see that there are a few different styles/versions of the character 令. For instance, you may see the top with a 丶 (点, the dot stroke) or a longer, flat line. But what really threw me off here was the bottom half, which looks quite different here from what I am used to.

灰 huī

I was so confused by the name of this Sandy Lam song on Spotify. I drew it in Pleco, but I didn't get any matches. I thought maybe it was 灭 miè. Eventually I looked up the album tracklist and learned it's 灰. Wiktionary seems to say this is the Japanese variant of 灰, but I think it comes down to the font Spotify uses.

真 zhēn

Despite 眞 and 真 looking quite different, I actually didn't have much difficulty reading 眞 due to context. MDBG lists it as a variant of 真. This video was on Instagram, but I think it's reposted from 抖音 (Douyin). I see 眞 on a lot of 抖音 reposts, so I assume it's due to the font used on 抖音.

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cynosurus · 4 months

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Look at this, no wonder I was confused about dong and yue/le on my recent exam:

乐 yue/le (as in yinyue = music or kuaile = happy) 东 dong (as in dongxi or east)

I knew 乐 had two pronunciations, and felt that the dong character was similar, but I knew it couldn't have a third pronunciation. And I couldn't for my mind figure out what to change with 乐 to make it into the dong character without it becoming 车.

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stuffdrama · 9 months

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