Topic summary
Traditional characters
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Traditional Chinese characters.
Terminology
Traditional characters are known by different names throughout the Chinese-speaking world. The most widely used name is 繁體字; 繁体字; fántǐzì; 'complex characters'. The government of Taiwan officially refers to them as 正體字; 正体字; zhèngtǐzì; 'orthodox characters'. This term is sometimes used outside Taiwan to distinguish standard characters, including both simplified, and traditional, from other variants and idiomatic characters. Traditional characters are also known as 老字; lǎozì; 'old characters', or 全體字; 全体字; quántǐzì; 'full characters' to distinguish them from simplified characters.