Chinese Characters - Reform

Reform

Chinese character simplification is the overall reduction of the number of strokes in the regular script of a set of Chinese characters.

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Famous quotes containing the word reform:

    “There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of “expediency.” There is no such thing as sliding up- hill. In morals the only sliders are backsliders.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “... most reform movements in our country have been cursed by a lunatic fringe and have mingled sound ideas for social progress with utopian nonsense.”
    —Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)