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madizi -

As other posters already mentioned, the transition from simplified to traditional characters isn't
so complicated as it seems.

Mainland Chinese used many methods to simplify characters:

- they totally changed the character or left some parts intact: 聼 --> 听, 頭 --> 头, 賣 -->
卖
- changed only one part of character (radical): 見 --> 见, 詩 --> 诗
- replaced one phonetic with another one which sounds the same: 廳 --> 厅

Radicals are always simplified in the same way (言 --> 讠，見 --> 见，食 --> 饣，etc.)

So, with this basic rules in your mind there won't be any problem for you to quickly learn
traditional characters.



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Ari 桑 -

I guess its that first group thats the tricky one, the one that doesn't bare much resemblance to
the original. But I'll learn. Thank you.










Mugi -



Quote:

- they totally changed the character or left some parts intact: 聼 --> 听, 頭 --> 头, 賣 -->
卖

Learning the derivations of simplifications can be interesting in itself. 头 and 卖 are examples
of 草书的楷书化 (regular scriptification? of cursive forms), while I think I've read
somewhere that 听 has been used as a 俗字 (non-standard substitute) for 聼 since Song times.










gato -

See this table for a summary of the simplification process:
http://www.stlcls.org/s-words/Simplified_word.htm
简化字总表
讠[訁]N20
饣[飠]N21
纟[糹]
钅[釒]N23
呙[咼]










Lu -

The first group is the tricky one, but also the smallest one I think. If you read some traditional
Chinese, you'll soon come across characters like 買 and 這, that look completely unfamiliar yet
come up all the time. Look them up once or twice and you can read them.










skylee -

The character "聼" is puzzling. IMHO it is wrong as the 王 below the 耳 on the left is missing
and there are 2 unnecessary strokes on top (but such unnecessary strokes are not uncommon in some
fonts for characters such as 場). But it always comes up when I type with windows IME. I was
clearly taught when I was a kid that the character should be written in the order of
耳王十四一心. This is the correct character -> 聽.












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