Variant characters: can not be directly converted with ordinary Chinese characters;

Traditional Chinese characters: can be directly converted with ordinary Chinese characters;

2. The association with ordinary Chinese characters is different.

Variant characters:? It is synonymous with the prescribed orthography, and its writing is quite different;

Traditional Chinese characters: the writing method is in the same strain as ordinary Chinese characters, which is relatively close.

Extended data:

Classification of variants

1. Different shapes

In many words, pictophonetic words only represent the category of meaning, so many pictophonetic words with similar meanings can be used in some words. For example: chant/,song/,cat/,slope/,pit/,Gunter/.

2. Different voices

There are many homophones in Chinese characters, and the same pronunciation can be identified by different phonetic symbols. For example: grain/,embroidery/,glue/,trousers/,thread/.

3. Different radical positions

The radicals of some compound words are not fixed. For example: take/,peak/,group/,enough/,omit/,draft/.

4. Different word-making methods

Some variant characters have very different glyphs and are made in different ways. For example: hanging /t, body/,tears /i, counting/.

5. Radicals are different.

For example: mercury/,analog/,dilution/,sound/.

6. Different levels of complexity

When some characters are simplified, the simplified characters are reserved for those with few strokes, and the traditional characters are used for those with many strokes.

Variants are not fixed. Some variants have different meanings at first, so they can't be used universally. Later, because the change of word meaning can be universal, it became a variant. For example, the original meaning of "leisure" is a bolt, and the original meaning of "leisure" is a gap, which is not universal at first, but later the original meaning of "leisure" is no longer used, and it can also be written as "leisure", and both "leisure" and "leisure" have become variants.

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