traditional Chinese characters

Details

Instance of

logographic writing system, natural writing system, unicase alphabet

Subclass of

Chinese characters

Inception

5th century

Part of

Traditional Chinese

Country

Taiwan, People's Republic of China, Philippines, United States, Singapore

Based on

clerical script

different from

legacy Chinese character, Traditional Chinese

language of work or name

Chinese

name

Han (Traditional variant), idéogrammes han (variante traditionnelle), 繁体字

native label

繁體字, 正體字

opposite of

simplified Chinese characters

partially coincident with

orthodox Chinese character

script directionality

bi-directional text, left-to-right, top-to-bottom, vertical right-to-left

used by

Traditional Chinese

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