Simplified characters - Kankaji

…In China, it refers to Chinese characters that have been traditionally considered to be regular characters, that is, characters with many strokes, simplified by reducing the number of strokes. It is also called simplified characters. However, there are two ways of using the word “simplified characters.” The first is the use of the word “simplified characters” as a general noun, which is roughly equivalent to the Japanese term “abbreviated characters.” The second is the use of the word “simplified characters” in the “Scheme for Simplifying Chinese Characters” promulgated by the State Council in 1956, which is used in newspapers, magazines, books, etc., and is the primary regular characters used today. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "simplified characters" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…中国で，従来正字体とされてきた筆画の多い漢字，いわゆる繁体字に対し，画数を減らして簡単にしたものをいう。簡化字ともいう。ただし〈簡体字〉には使い方が2種類あり，こういう一般名詞つまり日本でいえば〈略字〉というのにほぼ相当する使い方と，他の一つは1956年国務院から公布された《漢字簡化方案》に含まれ，新聞雑誌書籍などで使われる，現在第一の正字体という意味での使われ方である。…

※「簡化字」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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