Re:What Chinese looks, feels and sounds like when you're fro...
by lifthrasiir on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @01:30PM
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Simplified forms have been common in handwriting for centuries. Korean hanja was also simplified in handwriting when it was in use, even though it never got standardized. The "adoption" thus mostly means the standardization of such established glyphs even in print. (This also partly explains why the second reform in the mainland China [1] wasn't received well and retracted at the end.)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_round_of_simplified_Chi...
Re:What Chinese looks, feels and sounds like when you're fro...
by AlchemistCamp on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @12:12AM
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That's a pretty extreme exaggeration. 臺 is on many, many famous buildings: https://tnimage.s3.hicloud.net.tw/photos/2020/CNA/20200229/2...
Re:What Chinese looks, feels and sounds like when you're fro...
by ilamont on Monday October 19, 2020 @06:47PM
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The example you cited is operated by a central government entity, the Taiwan Railways Administration, and is used in a few places inside and outside the station, just as every other central government building uses the traditional form. On every other map and sign it's 台北車站. The tickets printed by the TRA even use 台北 or 台北車站.
Re:What Chinese looks, feels and sounds like when you're fro...
by spongepoc on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @07:00PM
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>Maybe someone knows the history?
You'll need to look up shinjitai, which consists of the simplified characters adopted in Japan, which are different to the ones used in China.
I lived in Taiwan when I was younger and studied Mandarin there, and can read a limited vocabulary of traditional Chinese characters. I don't know enough about the history of simplified characters in Japan, but it doesn't seem to me that they are as widely used (with a few exceptions like 国) as traditional forms. Maybe someone knows the history?
Also, regarding this statement:
臺 (Korea/Taiwan) 台 (Japan/China)
In Taiwan, the latter form of tai (台) is used 99% of the time in colloquial, news, and signage. The complex form (臺) AFAIK is used almost exclusively in certain government situations (e.g. the name of a central government bureau) or on money. Street signs for famous buildings all use 台, i.e. 台北101, 台北松山機場, etc.