Simplified Chinese

E191611

Simplified Chinese is a standardized form of written Chinese that uses characters with reduced strokes, primarily employed in mainland China and Singapore.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Simplified Chinese canonical 19
简体中文 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf orthographic standard
writing system
appliesTo Standard Mandarin vocabulary
basedOn Chinese characters
characterForm reduced stroke count
simplified radicals
coexistsWith Traditional Chinese in overseas communities
contrastsWith Traditional Chinese
Traditional Chinese characters
hasAlternativeName jiǎntǐ zhōngwén
jiǎntǐzì
Simplified Chinese
surface form: 简体中文

简体字
hasFeature one-to-many mappings from traditional characters
simplified component patterns
hasSubset commonly used characters
less commonly used characters
influenced Chinese typography
digital Chinese fonts
introducedInPeriod 1950s
languageCode zh-Hans
majorReform First Chinese Character Simplification Scheme
Second Chinese Character Simplification Scheme
officialStatusIn China
surface form: People's Republic of China

Singapore
primaryRegion Greater China
surface form: Mainland China

Singapore
purpose increase literacy
simplify character writing
regulatedBy Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China
surface form: Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China

National Language Commission of the PRC
surface form: National Language Commission of China
scriptStandardizedBy Chinese characters
surface form: Table of General Standard Chinese Characters
subclassOf written Chinese
usedFor education in Singapore
education in mainland China
government documents in Singapore
government documents in mainland China
mass media in mainland China
public signage in mainland China
usedIn Internet Chinese communities
Malaysia
usesScript Simplified Chinese characters
writingDirection left-to-right
writingMedium digital text
print
writingSystemOf Mandarin Chinese
other Sinitic languages

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (20)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Shiyan writingSystem Simplified Chinese
Tianhe primaryWritingSystem Simplified Chinese
Wuhu writingSystem Simplified Chinese
Dongyang, Zhejiang, China usesWritingSystem Simplified Chinese
subject surface form: Dongyang
Yinchuan writingSystem Simplified Chinese
Simplified Chinese hasAlternativeName Simplified Chinese
this entity surface form: 简体中文
Shíyàn writingSystem Simplified Chinese
Yangxin County usesWritingSystem Simplified Chinese
Tongcheng County usesWritingSystem Simplified Chinese
CNY scriptUsedOnBanknotes Simplified Chinese
Xialu District usesWritingSystem Simplified Chinese
Yunyang District hasWritingSystem Simplified Chinese
Dianjun District hasWritingSystem Simplified Chinese
Blizzard Shanghai languageOfLocalization Simplified Chinese
Xiangtan Railway Station hasWritingSystem Simplified Chinese
Pizhou hasWritingSystem Simplified Chinese
Quanshan District hasWritingSystem Simplified Chinese
Fangzhuang hasWritingSystem Simplified Chinese
Wei County hasWritingSystem Simplified Chinese
Qimen County hasWritingSystem Simplified Chinese