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How to Stop Writing Shinjitai Instead of Simplified
Japanese speakers often write the shinjitai form when they mean the simplified Chinese one. Here is why the habit fires and how to retrain it from memory.
Lawrence Arya··5 min
Posts tagged Shinjitai from the Hanzi Write Practice team.

Japanese speakers often write the shinjitai form when they mean the simplified Chinese one. Here is why the habit fires and how to retrain it from memory.

One character can have three different forms: Chinese traditional, Chinese simplified, and Japanese shinjitai. Know which standard you need, because recognizing it is not the same as writing it.