Simplified Chinese is mostly used in Mainland China, and it’s been the official writing system there since 1954, while Traditional Chinese was used prior to 1954. Both have character shapes that are roughly square, and each character has a monospaced square width, which forms clean grids no matter the direction the text is typed in. How many kinds of Chinese are there?Īs we know, Chinese can be written with two different sets of characters - Traditional and Simplified. It’s a beautiful and fascinating language, and it looks so different than most western languages that we’re used to.
When it comes to Chinese language, we don’t need to quote numbers and statistics to convince someone that it’s one of the most widely used languages in the world.
