正體字

See also: 正体字

Chinese

		the “proper/standard form” of scripts, especially of Chinese characters	letter; symbol; character letter; symbol; character; word
trad. (正體字)		正體	字
simp. (正体字)		正体	字
Literally: “orthodox characters”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhèngtǐzì

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄥˋ ㄊㄧˇ ㄗˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zing³ tai² zi⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chiàⁿ-thé-jī

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhèngtǐzì
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄥˋ ㄊㄧˇ ㄗˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhèngtǐzìh
    • Wade–Giles: chêng⁴-tʻi³-tzŭ⁴
    • Yale: jèng-tǐ-dz̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jenqtiitzyh
    • Palladius: чжэнтицзы (čžɛnticzy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɤŋ⁵¹ tʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡sz̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zing³ tai² zi⁶
    • Yale: jing tái jih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzing³ tai² dzi⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: jing³ tei² ji⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɪŋ³³ tʰɐi̯³⁵ t͡siː²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiàⁿ-thé-jī
    • Tâi-lô: tsiànn-thé-jī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cviartefji
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siã²¹⁻⁵³ tʰe⁵³⁻⁴⁴ d͡zi²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siã⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ tʰe⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ d͡zi⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siã²¹⁻⁵³ tʰe⁵³⁻⁴⁴ d͡zi²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡siã¹¹⁻⁵³ tʰe⁵³⁻⁴⁴ d͡zi³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siã²¹⁻⁴¹ tʰe⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ zi³³/

Noun

正體字

1. (chiefly Taiwan) Traditional Chinese (characters), especially the standard forms in Taiwan

   Synonym: 繁體字／繁体字 (fántǐzì)

   Antonyms: 簡體字／简体字 (jiǎntǐzì), 簡化字／简化字 (jiǎnhuàzì)

2. Chinese character (traditional or simplified) that conforms to an official or historical orthography

   Synonym: 正字 (zhèngzì)

   Antonyms: 異體字／异体字 (yìtǐzì), 俗字 (súzì)

3. (typography) characters typeset in their standard form rather than bolded or italicized

   Antonyms: 斜體／斜体 (xiétǐ), 粗體／粗体 (cūtǐ)

Usage notes

• When referring to Traditional Chinese characters, both 繁體字／繁体字 (fántǐzì) and 正體字／正体字 (zhèngtǐzì) are widely used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, with 正體字／正体字 (zhèngtǐzì) recommended by Taiwan government.
• Sometimes 正體字 refers specifically to Taiwan standard forms or historically standard forms, and the nonstandard forms are called 異體字／异体字 (yìtǐzì, “variant”) or 俗字 (súzì, “popular form”), or 簡體字／简体字 (jiǎntǐzì) if it is a simplified form.
  • E.g. in Taiwan, 臺 is as a 正體字, while 台 is a 異體字 or 俗字. Hong Kong standard recommends 台 instead, but 臺 is still seen as a 正體字 due to its historical orthodoxy.
  • But in some cases, the current Taiwan standard form of a character may be a historically nonstandard one, which makes what is a 正體字 ambiguous. E.g. 裏 used to be standard and 裡 nonstandard; but Taiwan standard adopted 裡. In this case, the Taiwan standard form can be referred to as 國字標準字體／国字标准字体.
• Regardless of simplified or not, when referring to a character that conforms to the orthography, it is used as a concept opposite to 異體字／异体字 (yìtǐzì, “variant”).
  • E.g. 回 (huí) is the 正體字/正体字 form of 囬. 場／场 (chǎng) are the 正體字/正体字 forms of 塲.

See also

• 規範字／规范字 (guīfànzì, “standardized Chinese characters that are used to write Simplified Chinese”)