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I found this post on the blog of a Chinese woman. It is very well written and I think you should all read it. Xiaoning's Blog Another go...

I recently had a conversation with a friend about this absurd simplification. The word radish in Mandarin is 蘿蔔(luó bo). It is a disyllabic ...

7. 詹 Obviously the Chinese government did not have a problem with this component. There are enough characters to prove it. If they had chang...

6. 瞿 Everything looks fine here, no problems that I can see. But wait...there is one simplification... Why change a phonetic component that ...

5. 韱 It takes a few seconds to write, but I find 韱 very beautiful as a character. Apparently the Chinese government didn't have a proble...

4. 襄 襄 itself is pronounced xiāng. When used as a phonetic component characters are usually pronounced rang, xiang, niang, nang(in descendin...

3. 韋 Here we have 韋 and 衛 in 4 characters that have not been simplified. Here is where things become uneven. The normal simplification for 韋...