Did you know that written Chinese has two character sets?

Standard Chinese, also known as Modern Standard Mandarin, uses a simplified character set that came into use in 1949. It is used today in Mainland China and in Singapore. The characters Elwin has used in his article are from the Traditional Chinese character set, used today in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau. He notes that his family speaks Enping (Yin Ping), a dialect of standard Cantonese. Cantonese is part of the Yue group of Chinese languages spoken in southeast China. The majority of early Chinese immigrants to North, Central and South America and British Commonwealth countries during the mid-19th century arrived from several counties within Guangdong Province (Kwangtung). Enping (Yin Ping), Kaiping (Hoy Ping), Panyu (Poon Yue), Shunde (Shun Duck), Taishan (Toishan), Xinhui (Sun Wui), and Zhong Shan (Chung Shan)…

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British Columbia History (Digital) - 1 Issue, 53.4 Winter 2020

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