<p>Traditional Chinese refers to Chinese characters that does not contain newly created characters or character substitutions performed after 1946. After new China was founded in 1949, entered a new phase in simplified Chinese characters, simplified characters adapted to early literacy movement. So, Chinese simplified largely promoted the rapid growth of the national. But the policy problem, Taiwan still use traditional Chinese. How to simplified characters came to be? I can recommend the book.
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I haven't read this book. But it seems that this book is just an illustrated excerpt of *Shuowen Jiezi*, which is a dictionary on the etymology of traditional Chinese characters instead of simplified ones.
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<p>There is no specific rules about how they became simplified Chinese, there is a group of expert did that a few decades ago, the goal is to make it easier to write, and don't lose it's original shape a lot. There is actually even a easier version than the current simplified Chinese, but it lost the spirit of Chinese character, so they were abandoned. </p>

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<p>I had the same question as the OP of <a href="https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/17926/what-is-the-story-or-reason-of-how-%e9%be%99-came-from-%e9%be%8d">What is the story or reason of how 龙 came from 龍?</a> and I like visuals given by Stan. The hardest part for me in Chinese is remembering the strokes of these simplified characters that came from traditional characters that don't seem very alike. Is there a website/book that explicitly deals with this?</p>

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Is there any compilation/resources/dictionaries on the transformations of how simplified characters came to be?
# Is there any compilation/resources/dictionaries on the transformations of how simplified characters came to be?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-07-04)

I had the same question as the OP of [What is the story or reason of how 龙 came from 龍?](https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/17926/what-is-the-story-or-reason-of-how-%e9%be%99-came-from-%e9%be%8d) and I like visuals given by Stan. The hardest part for me in Chinese is remembering the strokes of these simplified characters that came from traditional characters that don't seem very alike. Is there a website/book that explicitly deals with this?

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2016-07-11. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

Traditional Chinese refers to Chinese characters that does not contain newly created characters or character substitutions performed after 1946. After new China was founded in 1949, entered a new phase in simplified Chinese characters, simplified characters adapted to early literacy movement. So, Chinese simplified largely promoted the rapid growth of the national. But the policy problem, Taiwan still use traditional Chinese. How to simplified characters came to be? I can recommend the book.
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> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: I haven't read this book. But it seems that this book is just an illustrated excerpt of *Shuowen Jiezi*, which is a dictionary on the etymology of traditional Chinese characters instead of simplified ones.  

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### Answer by username_3 on 2016-07-07. Score: -1

There is no specific rules about how they became simplified Chinese, there is a group of expert did that a few decades ago, the goal is to make it easier to write, and don't lose it's original shape a lot. There is actually even a easier version than the current simplified Chinese, but it lost the spirit of Chinese character, so they were abandoned.


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