35-491: The Flash Wolves ( Chinese : 閃電狼 ; pinyin : Shǎndiàn Láng ) are a Taiwanese esports organization with players competing in Arena of Valor , Hearthstone , and League of Legends: Wild Rift . They formerly had teams competing in League of Legends , Overwatch , Special Force II , StarCraft II , and World of Tanks . The Flash Wolves' League of Legends team
70-503: A certain extent in South Korea , remain virtually identical to traditional characters, with variations between the two forms largely stylistic. There has historically been a debate on traditional and simplified Chinese characters . Because the simplifications are fairly systematic, it is possible to convert computer-encoded characters between the two sets, with the main issue being ambiguities in simplified representations resulting from
105-764: A record of 2 wins to 4 losses. The Flash Wolves announced on 13 December 2019 that it was disbanding its League of Legends team and would not participate in the upcoming Pacific Championship Series (PCS), the successor to the LMS. Chou "AFei" Cheng-ting The Taichung Flash Wolves were one of the top Special Force II teams in Taiwan and began competing in the inaugural Special Force II Pro League that began in October 2015. The Flash Wolves' former StarCraft II roster consisted of PartinG , Leenock, San, Has and Ian. As of this edit , this article uses content from "Flash Wolves" , which
140-484: A spot in the 2013 World Cyber Games . In 2014, the Flash Wolves saw several roster changes: Dee left the team on 13 January; on 24 January, Mountain joined as the team's new starting jungler, REFRA1N moved to the mid lane, Maple became a substitute player, and HueiYun left; Maooo and Maple were moved to the academy team yoe Flash Wolves Junior on 21 February; and Mountain left on 30 April. The Flash Wolves finished 4th in
175-850: Is 産 (also the accepted form in Japan and Korea), while in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan the accepted form is 產 (also the accepted form in Vietnamese chữ Nôm ). The PRC tends to print material intended for people in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, and overseas Chinese in traditional characters. For example, versions of the People's Daily are printed in traditional characters, and both People's Daily and Xinhua have traditional character versions of their website available, using Big5 encoding. Mainland companies selling products in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan use traditional characters in order to communicate with consumers;
210-526: Is licensed in a way that permits reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License , but not under the GFDL . All relevant terms must be followed. Traditional Chinese characters Traditional Chinese characters are a standard set of Chinese character forms used to write Chinese languages . In Taiwan , the set of traditional characters is regulated by
245-483: The Chinese Commercial News , World News , and United Daily News all use traditional characters, as do some Hong Kong–based magazines such as Yazhou Zhoukan . The Philippine Chinese Daily uses simplified characters. DVDs are usually subtitled using traditional characters, influenced by media from Taiwan as well as by the two countries sharing the same DVD region , 3. With most having immigrated to
280-545: The Kensiu language . J Team J Team is a Taiwanese esports organization owned by JY Entertainment. It was founded in April 2016 by Jay Chou after he purchased the League of Legends Master Series spot of Taipei Assassins , which had won the Season 2 World Championship in 2012. J Team's League of Legends team competed in the League of Legends Master Series and later
315-525: The Ministry of Education and standardized in the Standard Form of National Characters . These forms were predominant in written Chinese until the middle of the 20th century, when various countries that use Chinese characters began standardizing simplified sets of characters, often with characters that existed before as well-known variants of the predominant forms. Simplified characters as codified by
350-694: The Pacific Championship Series . J Team disbanded its League of Legends division in 2024 after failing to secure a spot in the League of Legends Championship Pacific . Taiwanese singer Jay Chou announced on 19 April 2016 that he had acquired the LMS spot of Taipei Assassins for his new esports organization, J Team. J Team debuted in the 2016 LMS Summer Split with an inaugural roster consisting of top laners Chen "Morning" Kuan-ting and Chen "RLun" Cheng-lun, jungler Chen "REFRA1N" Kuan-ting, mid laner Chu "FoFo" Chun-lan, bot laner Chang "BeBe" Bo-wei, and support Li "Jay" Chieh. The team placed first in
385-759: The People's Republic of China are predominantly used in mainland China , Malaysia, and Singapore. "Traditional" as such is a retronym applied to non-simplified character sets in the wake of widespread use of simplified characters. Traditional characters are commonly used in Taiwan , Hong Kong , and Macau , as well as in most overseas Chinese communities outside of Southeast Asia. As for non-Chinese languages written using Chinese characters, Japanese kanji include many simplified characters known as shinjitai standardized after World War II, sometimes distinct from their simplified Chinese counterparts . Korean hanja , still used to
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#1732851850754420-622: The Shanghainese -language character U+20C8E 𠲎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-20C8E —a composition of 伐 with the ⼝ 'MOUTH' radical—used instead of the Standard Chinese 嗎 ; 吗 . Typefaces often use the initialism TC to signify the use of traditional Chinese characters, as well as SC for simplified Chinese characters . In addition, the Noto, Italy family of typefaces, for example, also provides separate fonts for
455-517: The 2015 LMS Summer regular season, and 3rd in the 2015 LMS Summer playoffs. In May, the Flash Wolves announced the formation of a female League of Legends team. The Flash Wolves were the 2nd seed representing the Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau region in the 2015 League of Legends World Championship . On 11 October, Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu made a surprise visit to Paris to meet with the Flash Wolves and ahq e-Sports Club, wishing them luck in
490-512: The LNL Winter split. The Flash Wolves finished first at IEM Season IX – Taipei on 30 January by beating the Taipei Assassins 2–1. In March, the Flash Wolves defeated SK Gaming in the second round of the group state at IEM Season IX Katowice, qualifying for the semifinals, where they were defeated by Team SoloMid 2–1. The Flash Wolves finished 2nd in both the 2015 LMS Spring playoffs and
525-547: The People's Republic of China, traditional Chinese characters are standardised according to the Table of Comparison between Standard, Traditional and Variant Chinese Characters . Dictionaries published in mainland China generally show both simplified and their traditional counterparts. There are differences between the accepted traditional forms in mainland China and elsewhere, for example the accepted traditional form of 产 in mainland China
560-571: The United States during the second half of the 19th century, Chinese Americans have long used traditional characters. When not providing both, US public notices and signs in Chinese are generally written in traditional characters, more often than in simplified characters. In the past, traditional Chinese was most often encoded on computers using the Big5 standard, which favored traditional characters. However,
595-581: The World Championship. The team won their preliminary group, but finished in 5th–8th overall after losing to Origen 1–3. The Flash Wolves finished 2nd in the 2016 LMS Spring Split regular season with 9 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses. Heading into the playoffs, the team was able to defeat both Machi and ahq in 3–0 sweeps, winning their first LMS title. This qualified them for the 2016 Mid-Season Invitational , where they managed to take games off SK Telecom T1 , G2 Esports and SuperMassive eSports, advancing to
630-525: The draft season of the Taiwan e-Sports League (TeSL). After finishing 6th in the TeSL, the team struggled in the Season 3 Taiwan Regional Finals group stage and received the last slot in group B, prompting four of the five players on the team to leave. As a result, the team announced it would forfeit all its remaining matches and began reforming itself. On 22 August, the team rebranded as yoe Flash Wolves and signed nearly
665-474: The entire roster of Gamania Bears on 21 October, automatically qualifying them for the 2014 LNL Winter and the 2014 GPL Winter splits. However, they gave up their spot in the latter due to Riot Games ' player age limit rules. The Flash Wolves made an impressive return in the 2013 WCG Taiwan Qualifiers, defeating two established Taiwanese powerhouses, the Taipei Assassins and ahq e-Sports Club , and earning
700-493: The inverse is equally true as well. In digital media, many cultural phenomena imported from Hong Kong and Taiwan into mainland China, such as music videos, karaoke videos, subtitled movies, and subtitled dramas, use traditional Chinese characters. In Hong Kong and Macau , traditional characters were retained during the colonial period, while the mainland adopted simplified characters. Simplified characters are contemporaneously used to accommodate immigrants and tourists, often from
735-428: The jungle. In the 2017 LMS Spring Split J Team placed third in both the regular season and playoffs, losing in the second round of the latter to ahq eSports Club . J Team was one of four teams that represented the LMS at Rift Rivals 2017, where the league placed last. J Team placed fourth in both the regular season and playoffs of the 2017 LMS Summer Split after losing to ahq once again in the playoffs. Top laner Morning
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#1732851850754770-725: The mainland. The increasing use of simplified characters has led to concern among residents regarding protecting what they see as their local heritage. Taiwan has never adopted simplified characters. The use of simplified characters in government documents and educational settings is discouraged by the government of Taiwan. Nevertheless, with sufficient context simplified characters are likely to be successfully read by those used to traditional characters, especially given some previous exposure. Many simplified characters were previously variants that had long been in some use, with systematic stroke simplifications used in folk handwriting since antiquity. Traditional characters were recognized as
805-682: The majority of Chinese text in mainland China are simplified characters , there is no legislation prohibiting the use of traditional Chinese characters, and often traditional Chinese characters remain in use for stylistic and commercial purposes, such as in shopfront displays and advertising. Traditional Chinese characters remain ubiquitous on buildings that predate the promulgation of the current simplification scheme, such as former government buildings, religious buildings, educational institutions, and historical monuments. Traditional Chinese characters continue to be used for ceremonial, cultural, scholarly/academic research, and artistic/decorative purposes. In
840-975: The merging of previously distinct character forms. Many Chinese online newspapers allow users to switch between these character sets. Traditional characters are known by different names throughout the Chinese-speaking world. The government of Taiwan officially refers to traditional Chinese characters as 正體字 ; 正体字 ; zhèngtǐzì ; 'orthodox characters'. This term is also used outside Taiwan to distinguish standard characters, including both simplified, and traditional, from other variants and idiomatic characters . Users of traditional characters elsewhere, as well as those using simplified characters, call traditional characters 繁體字 ; 繁体字 ; fántǐzì ; 'complex characters', 老字 ; lǎozì ; 'old characters', or 全體字 ; 全体字 ; quántǐzì ; 'full characters' to distinguish them from simplified characters. Some argue that since traditional characters are often
875-665: The official script in Singapore until 1969, when the government officially adopted Simplified characters. Traditional characters still are widely used in contexts such as in baby and corporation names, advertisements, decorations, official documents and in newspapers. The Chinese Filipino community continues to be one of the most conservative in Southeast Asia regarding simplification. Although major public universities teach in simplified characters, many well-established Chinese schools still use traditional characters. Publications such as
910-700: The original standard forms, they should not be called 'complex'. Conversely, there is a common objection to the description of traditional characters as 'standard', due to them not being used by a large population of Chinese speakers. Additionally, as the process of Chinese character creation often made many characters more elaborate over time, there is sometimes a hesitation to characterize them as 'traditional'. Some people refer to traditional characters as 'proper characters' ( 正字 ; zhèngzì or 正寫 ; zhèngxiě ) and to simplified characters as 簡筆字 ; 简笔字 ; jiǎnbǐzì ; 'simplified-stroke characters' or 減筆字 ; 减笔字 ; jiǎnbǐzì ; 'reduced-stroke characters', as
945-515: The regular season with a 10–4–0 record but lost 0–3 to the Flash Wolves in the finals. J Team's second-place finish in playoffs qualified them for the 2016 LMS Regional Qualifiers and a chance at participating in the 2016 World Championship ; however, they were defeated 2–3 in the semifinals by Machi Esports . J Team placed fifth/sixth at IEM Season 11 Gyeonggi after losing to North America's Immortals , with Chen "Achie" Chen-chi replacing REFRA1N in
980-558: The semifinals. However, the Flash Wolves ultimately lost their series 1–3 to Counter Logic Gaming , placing 3rd–4th. The Flash Wolves finished 2nd in the 2016 LMS Summer Split regular season, but were able to win their 2nd LMS title after defeating ahq in a close five-game series and J Team in a convincing 3–0 sweep. Qualifying for the 2016 World Championship as the #1 seed from the LMS, the Flash Wolves were drawn into Group B against South Korea's SK Telecom T1 , China's IMay and North America's Cloud9 . They finished last in their group with
1015-578: The traditional character set used in Taiwan ( TC ) and the set used in Hong Kong ( HK ). Most Chinese-language webpages now use Unicode for their text. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommends the use of the language tag zh-Hant to specify webpage content written with traditional characters. In the Japanese writing system , kyujitai are traditional forms, which were simplified to create shinjitai for standardized Japanese use following World War II. Kyūjitai are mostly congruent with
1050-970: The traditional characters in Chinese, save for minor stylistic variation. Characters that are not included in the jōyō kanji list are generally recommended to be printed in their traditional forms, with a few exceptions. Additionally, there are kokuji , which are kanji wholly created in Japan, rather than originally being borrowed from China. In the Korean writing system , hanja —replaced almost entirely by hangul in South Korea and totally replaced in North Korea —are mostly identical with their traditional counterparts, save minor stylistic variations. As with Japanese, there are autochthonous hanja, known as gukja . Traditional Chinese characters are also used by non-Chinese ethnic groups. The Maniq people living in Thailand and Malaysia use Chinese characters to write
1085-509: The ubiquitous Unicode standard gives equal weight to simplified and traditional Chinese characters, and has become by far the most popular encoding for Chinese-language text. There are various input method editors (IMEs) available for the input of Chinese characters . Many characters, often dialectical variants, are encoded in Unicode but cannot be inputted using certain IMEs, with one example being
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1120-414: The upcoming regional finals. J Team was once again unsuccessful in qualifying for the World Championship after being swept 0–3 by G-Rex . J Team placed third in the 2019 LMS Spring regular season and fourth in playoffs after losing 1–3 to ahq. In the 2019 LMS Summer Split, J Team finished first in both the regular season and playoffs, defeating ahq 3–1 in the finals and securing their first LMS title under
1155-571: The words for simplified and reduced are homophonous in Standard Chinese , both pronounced as jiǎn . The modern shapes of traditional Chinese characters first appeared with the emergence of the clerical script during the Han dynasty c. 200 BCE , with the sets of forms and norms more or less stable since the Southern and Northern dynasties period c. the 5th century . Although
1190-478: Was created after the draft in the Taiwan eSports League Draft Season. It competed in the League of Legends Masters Series (LMS)—the top league in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau—and was one of the best teams in the region. The team reached the quarterfinals of the World Championship for the first time in 2015 . The Flash Wolves were originally established under the name yoe IRONMEN on 15 April 2013, after
1225-422: Was replaced by Hsu "Rest" Shih-chieh during the playoffs. J Team was unable to qualify for the 2017 World Championship after losing to Hong Kong Attitude in the regional finals. J Team placed fifth in the 2018 LMS Spring regular season and fourth in the 2018 LMS Summer regular season, both times with 6–8 records. After losing 0–3 to MAD Team in the 2018 LMS Summer playoffs, J Team finished 3rd and prepared for
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