樂~楽~乐

>>78824759
The Chinese did it to boost literacy. When you have billions of people, sometimes it means throwing away culture in order to progress.
Taiwan and Japan didn't need to drastically simplify radicals within the past few decades because they don't have hundreds and millions of peasants to try and educate.

>>78824759
A lot of simplifications, even those that were criticized the most, such as 爱, were actually used a lot even before the official codification. Now the second phase would have been a mess.

>>78824976
Japanese Kanji also has simplified characters and shorthand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryakuji

Simplified characters are just shorthand forms made official. They didn't come from nowhere.

>>78825078
Obviously, but the sort of radical simplification used in mainland China is drastic. We are talking about changes that occurred over hundreds of years compared to over decades. The manner in which the Chinese government officially enforced these simplified characters undermines the radicals and obscures the character in favour of easier memorisation.
樂 is still found in Japanese, and 樂→楽 still preserves the radicals. 乐 doesn't.
You can't really compare 略字 with 二簡字。

>>78825296
Simplification wasn't something only the communists did and PRC's "radical simplification" didn't end up becoming harder to learn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters#History

>>78824759
Your script is outdated Japan. No wonder you guys are behind in IT

Communists denied the difficult Kanji once.
They recognized that is cancer/cause of the discrimination for the knowledge.
Though that is right a little.
Therefore we should not make a mistake for Kanji.
The reason why is that the number of kanji's types increases when we make a mistake for kanji.
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