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32-562: Ap Lei Chau Estate ( Chinese : 鴨脷洲邨 ) is a public estate in Ap Lei Chau. It is the first public housing estate in Ap Lei Chau. Completed in two phases in 1980 to 1982 respectively, the estate consists of 8 residential blocks providing 4,453 flats. It was one of the public housing estates built from 1980 to 1982 to accommodate people affected by a major fire in Aberdeen Typhoon Shelter . Broadview Court ( Chinese : 雅濤閣 )

64-509: A 3-storey podium. Ocean Court ( Chinese : 逸港居 ) is a HOS and PSPS court on the reclaimed land in Aberdeen, located on the waterfront of Aberdeen Praya Road . The residential development was built in 2000, and it comprises three 31-storey residential towers providing 550 domestic units. Shek Pai Wan Estate ( Chinese : 石排灣邨 ) is a public estate in Shek Pai Wan, the hillside at

96-503: 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

128-610: A public estate in Tin Wan , to the west of Aberdeen. Tin Wan Estate was a resettlement estate which had a total of 15 blocks built between 1962 and 1965. The blocks were demolished in 1992 and replaced by 5 residential buildings in 1997. Wah Fu Estate ( Chinese : 華富邨 ) is a public estate located by the Kellett Bay , Pok Fu Lam. Divided into Wah Fu (I) Estate (Chinese: 華富(一)邨 ) and Wah Fu (II) Estate (Chinese: 華富(二)邨 ),

160-442: A total of 1,540 Residential units. The units are divided into two-bedrooms and two-living rooms and three-bedrooms and two-living rooms. The building area is 505-707 square feet. Most of the units can enjoy sea views such as the deep bay and the marina. Hung Fuk Court ( Chinese : 鴻福苑 ) is a HOS court in Tin Wan , Aberdeen , near Tin Wan Estate. It consists of 2 blocks completed in 1997. Ka Lung Court ( Chinese : 嘉隆苑 )

192-588: A total of about 7,500 units. In 2004, some of the flats were sold to tenants through Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 6A. Marina Habitat ( Chinese : 悅海華庭 ) is a Sandwich Class Housing Scheme court in Ap Lei Chau developed by the Hong Kong Housing Society , built on the reclaimed land outside Ap Lei Chau Main Street on the waterfront of Ap Lei Chau. It consists of 3 residential towers on top of

224-501: Is Ming Wah Dai Ha ), and also the oldest one in Southern District. Yue On Court ( Chinese : 漁安苑 ) is a HOS court in Ap Lei Chau, near Aberdeen South Typhoon Shelter , Lei Tung Estate and Lei Tung station. It comprises 7 Cruciform blocks of 35 storeys. Traditional Chinese characters Traditional Chinese characters are a standard set of Chinese character forms used to write Chinese languages . In Taiwan ,

256-850: 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;

288-737: Is a HOS and PSPS court in Shum Wan Road, Wong Chuk Hang , next to the Aberdeen Marina Club and Ocean Park . Jointly developed by the Hong Kong Housing Authority and COSCO International , the court has a total of 4 blocks built in 2001. The entire housing estate is composed of four residential buildings, which are located on the Sham Wan Bus Terminal, a multi-storey car park and a retail platform. Two residential buildings with 38 floors and two 39 floors with fire barriers,

320-565: Is a HOS court on the reclaimed land of Kellett Bay in Tin Wan Praya Road , Pok Fu Lam , next to Wah Kwai Estate. It comprises 4 blocks built in 1991. Ka Lung Court is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 18. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money) and Hong Kong Southern District Government Primary School (香港南區官立小學). Lei Tung Estate ( Chinese : 利東邨 )

352-439: Is a mixed public and Tenants Purchase Scheme (TPS) estate in Ap Lei Chau near Lei Tung station . Built at a hill called Yuk Kwai Shan , it is the second public housing estate in Ap Lei Chau. It is developed into a self-contained community with various kinds of recreational and commercial facilities. It consists of 8 residential blocks with 2 blocks of Trident I type and 6 blocks of Trident II type, built between 1987 and 1988 with

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384-483: Is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 18. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money) and Hong Kong Southern District Government Primary School (香港南區官立小學). Yue Fai Court ( Chinese : 漁暉苑 ) is a Home Ownership Scheme court in Shek Pai Wan , Aberdeen, near Shek Pai Wan Estate and Yue Kwong Chuen. It consists of 6 blocks completed in 1980, and it

416-483: 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

448-590: The Kensiu language . Nam Long Shan Nam Long Shan ( Chinese : 南朗山) or Brick Hill is a hill on the Hong Kong Island of Hong Kong, near Wong Chuk Hang and Aberdeen . At an elevation of 282 metres, it overlooks the South China Sea in the south, Sham Wan and Aberdeen Channel in the west, and Deep Water Bay in the east. The summit of Ocean Park is on the southern slopes of Nam Long Shan, with

480-622: 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

512-547: 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

544-571: 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,

576-457: The east of Aberdeen, Hong Kong . It comprises 7 residential blocks, a non-standard small household block, a primary school , a shopping centre and a bus terminus . South Wave Court ( Chinese : 南濤閣 ) is a HOS and PSPS court beside Nam Long Shan in Wong Chuk Hang , near Sham Wan and Aberdeen Marina Club . It has 3 blocks built in 1995. Tin Wan Estate ( Chinese : 田灣邨 ) is

608-493: 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

640-725: 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

672-682: 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

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704-975: 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

736-665: 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

768-700: 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

800-825: The predominant forms. Simplified characters as codified by 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

832-509: The set of traditional characters is regulated by 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

864-627: 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

896-970: 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

928-509: 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

960-424: The whole estate has a total of 18 residential blocks completed between 1967 and 1978. Wah Kwai Estate (Chinese: 華貴邨 ) is a mixed public and TPS estate on the reclaimed land of Kellett Bay , Pok Fu Lam, located near Wah Fu Estate . The estate consists of 6 residential buildings built in 1990 and 1991. In 1998, some of the flats were sold to tenants through Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 1. Wah Kwai Estate

992-571: 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

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1024-601: Was one of the earliest HOS courts in Hong Kong. Yue Kwong Chuen ( Chinese : 漁光村 ) is a public estate in Aberdeen, developed by the HKHS, and it is the only estate in Southern District developed by the Hong Kong Housing Society. The estate comprises 5 blocks built in 1962, 1963 and 1965 respectively. It is the second oldest existing public housing estate developed by the Hong Kong Housing Society (the first one

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