Word Meaning 簡体字

かんたいじ kantaiji

簡体字 is read as かんたいじ (kantaiji) and means simplified Chinese character.

Meaning

English

simplified Chinese character

Reading

Kana

かんたいじ

Romaji

kantaiji

Stroke Sequence

3 Characters • 31 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N2 Jōyō Grade 6 Kanken 5級 Rank 87231 Priority N

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

簡易慣用字体

かんいかんようじたい

customary simplified form (of kanji)

異体文字

いたいもじ

variant characters (usu. kanji or kana)

書簡体小説

しょかんたいしょうせつ

novel written in epistolary style

字体

じたい

form of a character (e.g. simplified, traditional)

定義文字実体集合

ていぎもじじったいしゅうごう

definitional character entity set

Example Sentences

中国では漢字の字数が多いから、複雑な繁体字をやめて覚えやすい簡体字に置き換え、識字率を高めることが簡体字推進の目的でした。

In China, there is a large number of characters, so the goal of the character simplification was to replace the complex traditional characters with easy to remember simplified characters and increase the literacy rate.