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- proper noun Alternative spelling of
Jiantizi .
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Standard spoken Mandarin in China (putonghua, or "common tongue") is very similar to Mandarin spoken in Taiwan (Guoyu, or "national language") but Chinese use simplified characters (jiantizi) which impacts typing, search, software installation, Web design, and game design.
May Guest Ian Lamont 2007
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This allows him to reach Taiwanese, Hong Kongese and overseas Chinese scholars who are more used to fanti than jiantizi.
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Now, since the 'specialized', narrow-single-meaning cao4 character (penetrate+flesh) appears in the Honglou meng and the Jin Ping Mei, a good test would be to see if it has been replaced in the jiantizi (simplified') editions of both novels.
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The exact Mandarin equivalent (in meaning, frequency and application fields) is cao 操 (I'm using my old computer, where I can only type jiantizi, but the "explicit" character for this is composed by a 'ru' 入 "penetrate" above 'rou' 肉 "flesh").
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