There used to be an entire Chinese side of the site with the stories and flash cards and whatnot.
Just as a thing for people who want to leverage some just right now: if you use Chrome there are s couple of useful things to allow you to see what happens when the Kanji get simplified:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detai...mhcaljjkde
It reads the characters does Rikaichan style quick translations, and also show the simpified characters and traditional characters side by side. There are some Japanese characters it does not pick up, but many it does
Pera-pera also works in Chrome, and also Firefox.
This website:
http://www.zdic.net/z/22/js/82D4.htm
Also does a great job of showing all the variant forms, but it is written in nothing but simplifed Chinese. It does allow Japanese characters lookup as well.
For those who have never seen simplified there are some radical simplifications that make it much easier to write, that actually work in most handwriting input Japanese places. Traditional characters are all much more complex and quite often simply illegible in smaller fonts
马=馬
鸟=鳥
转＝転＝轉
围=囲=圍
伟=偉 (韋 → 韦)
灵=霊＝靈＝
个=個=~箇,
类=類=
异体字=異体字＝異體字
杂音=雑音=雜音
车=車
东＝東
龙=龍=竜
体=體
干=幹
门＝門 This last one is actually standard replaced in japanese handwriting as well
as noted in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryakuji
though the Chinese and Japanese fonts represent it differently
The massive reduction in the left radicals 讠 replaces 言, 钅replaces 金 takes some getting used to be a suprisingly amount of meaning can be pulled once you get used to the differences.
大陆简体 on the Chinese Wikipedia is the way of knowing 大陸 (Mainland) 簡体 (Easy Characters)
Taiwan's are called 台灣正體 Taiwan correct characters
On every Wikipedia landing page there is a pull down menu (不转换=不転換) that lets you choose between five choices
大陆简体 Mainland Simplified
台灣正體 Taiwan Correct
香港繁體 Hong Kong Full Characters
澳門繁體 Macau Full Characters
马新简体 Singapore New Simplified
This lets you read the same (mostly) articles, with just character forms subbed.
Just as a thing for people who want to leverage some just right now: if you use Chrome there are s couple of useful things to allow you to see what happens when the Kanji get simplified:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detai...mhcaljjkde
It reads the characters does Rikaichan style quick translations, and also show the simpified characters and traditional characters side by side. There are some Japanese characters it does not pick up, but many it does
Pera-pera also works in Chrome, and also Firefox.
This website:
http://www.zdic.net/z/22/js/82D4.htm
Also does a great job of showing all the variant forms, but it is written in nothing but simplifed Chinese. It does allow Japanese characters lookup as well.
For those who have never seen simplified there are some radical simplifications that make it much easier to write, that actually work in most handwriting input Japanese places. Traditional characters are all much more complex and quite often simply illegible in smaller fonts
马=馬
鸟=鳥
转＝転＝轉
围=囲=圍
伟=偉 (韋 → 韦)
灵=霊＝靈＝
个=個=~箇,
类=類=
异体字=異体字＝異體字
杂音=雑音=雜音
车=車
东＝東
龙=龍=竜
体=體
干=幹
门＝門 This last one is actually standard replaced in japanese handwriting as well
as noted in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryakuji
though the Chinese and Japanese fonts represent it differently
The massive reduction in the left radicals 讠 replaces 言, 钅replaces 金 takes some getting used to be a suprisingly amount of meaning can be pulled once you get used to the differences.
大陆简体 on the Chinese Wikipedia is the way of knowing 大陸 (Mainland) 簡体 (Easy Characters)
Taiwan's are called 台灣正體 Taiwan correct characters
On every Wikipedia landing page there is a pull down menu (不转换=不転換) that lets you choose between five choices
大陆简体 Mainland Simplified
台灣正體 Taiwan Correct
香港繁體 Hong Kong Full Characters
澳門繁體 Macau Full Characters
马新简体 Singapore New Simplified
This lets you read the same (mostly) articles, with just character forms subbed.
Edited: 2015-08-02, 2:35 am