This is the Xinhua Dictionary of 1953, its main role was to promote national literacy,The traditional Chinese characters are in brackets.
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This is the Xinhua Dictionary of 2020, which is a literacy reference book for primary school students, still have traditional Chinese characters.
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You will find that only part of Chinese characters have different between traditional and simplified.
Using Xinhua Dictionary is already the primary requirement of literacy, I am a calligraphy lover, my practice involving traditional Chinese characters and more classical Chinese characters ? You know,even you never meet this character, as long as you can use simplified Chinese , you can also understand it’s meaning.
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