30-730: Tin Heng may refer to: Tin Heng Estate , a public housing estate in Tin Shui Wai, Hong Kong Tin Heng stop , an MTR Light Rail stop adjacent to the estate Tin Heng (constituency) , of the Yuen Long District Council Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Tin Heng . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
60-509: A certain extent in South Korea , remain virtually identical to traditional characters, with variations between the two forms largely stylistic. There has historically been a debate on traditional and simplified Chinese characters . Because the simplifications are fairly systematic, it is possible to convert computer-encoded characters between the two sets, with the main issue being ambiguities in simplified representations resulting from
90-869: Is 産 (also the accepted form in Japan and Korea), while in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan the accepted form is 產 (also the accepted form in Vietnamese chữ Nôm ). The PRC tends to print material intended for people in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, and overseas Chinese in traditional characters. For example, versions of the People's Daily are printed in traditional characters, and both People's Daily and Xinhua have traditional character versions of their website available, using Big5 encoding. Mainland companies selling products in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan use traditional characters in order to communicate with consumers;
120-769: Is a public housing estate in Tin Shui Wai , Yuen Long , New Territories , Hong Kong. It comprises 6 residential buildings completed in 2001. Tin Ching Estate ( Chinese : 天晴邨 ) is a public housing estate in Tin Shui Wai. It is divided into 2 phases and consists of 7 residential buildings completed in 2008 and 2010 respectively. Tin Chung Court ( Chinese : 天頌苑 ) is a HOS court in Tin Shui Wai, located near Tin Wah Estate. It comprises 15 blocks completed in 1999 and 2002 respectively. In 1999,
150-894: Is a HOS court in Tin Shui Wai, located near Tin Yiu Estate and MTR Tin Shui Wai station . It has totally 17 residential buildings completed in 1999. Tin Shui Estate ( Chinese : 天瑞邨 ) is a public housing estate in Tin Shui Wai. It is the second public housing estate in Tin Shui Wai New Town . It is divided into Tin Shui (I) Estate ( Chinese : 天瑞(一)邨 ) and Tin Shui (II) Estate ( Chinese : 天瑞(二)邨 ), and consists of 12 residential buildings completed in 1993. Tin Tsz Estate ( Chinese : 天慈邨 )
180-791: Is a HOS court in Tin Shui Wai, near Tin Yiu Estate. It consists of 3 blocks built in 1992. Tin Yat Estate ( Chinese : 天逸邨 ) is a public housing estate in Tin Shui Wai. It consists of 9 residential buildings completed in 2001. Tin Yiu Estate ( Chinese : 天耀邨 ) is a public housing estate in Tin Shui Wai. It is the first public housing estate in Tin Shui Wai New Town . It is divided into Tin Yiu (I) Estate ( Chinese : 天耀(一)邨 ) and Tin Yiu (II) Estate ( Chinese : 天耀(二)邨 ), and consists of 12 residential buildings completed in 1992 and 1993. Tin Yuet Estate ( Chinese : 天悅邨 )
210-545: Is a public housing estate in Tin Shui Wai. The estate consists of 8 residential buildings completed in 2002 and 2004 respectively. Four of them were originally designed as an Interim Housing estate, but they were renovated to become a public housing estate in 2004. During the SARS outbreak in 2003, Block 2 and 3 were furnished as temporary quarters for frontline healthcare staff. Tin Yau Court ( Chinese : 天祐苑 )
240-413: Is a public housing estate in Tin Shui Wai. It consists of 6 residential buildings completed in 2000 and 2002. Grandeur Terrace ( Chinese : 俊宏軒 ) is a public housing estate in Tin Shui Wai. It is the only estate in Tin Shui Wai which its name does not have the prefix "Tin" ( Chinese : 天 ). It was a HOS and PSPS court, and it is the largest PSPS in Hong Kong with 4,100 residential units. It
270-464: Is a public housing estate in Tin Shui Wai. It has 4 residential buildings completed in 1997 and contains 3,400 rental flats of sizes ranging from 12.8 to 43.3m . Its authorized population is 9,400 in 2009. Tin Wah Estate ( Chinese : 天華邨 ) is a public housing estate in Tin Shui Wai. The estate consists of 7 residential buildings completed in 1999. Tin Yan Estate ( Chinese : 天恩邨 )
300-709: Is the northernmost Housing Authority public rental housing estate of Tin Shui Wai, located near and Hong Kong Wetland Park . It has totally 14 residential buildings completed in 2001. Heng Lok House was put under lockdown due to Covid pandemic between 2 and 3 February 2021. Heng Chui House and Heng Chun House were sealed on 27 February 2022. Tin Oi Court ( Chinese : 天愛苑 ) is a HOS court in Tin Shui Estate, Tin Shui Wai. It has only two blocks completed in 1993. Tin Shing Court ( Chinese : 天盛苑 )
330-493: The Chinese Commercial News , World News , and United Daily News all use traditional characters, as do some Hong Kong–based magazines such as Yazhou Zhoukan . The Philippine Chinese Daily uses simplified characters. DVDs are usually subtitled using traditional characters, influenced by media from Taiwan as well as by the two countries sharing the same DVD region , 3. With most having immigrated to
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#1732787891904360-640: The Shanghainese -language character U+20C8E 𠲎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-20C8E —a composition of 伐 with the ⼝ 'MOUTH' radical—used instead of the Standard Chinese 嗎 ; 吗 . Typefaces often use the initialism TC to signify the use of traditional Chinese characters, as well as SC for simplified Chinese characters . In addition, the Noto, Italy family of typefaces, for example, also provides separate fonts for
390-504: The piles of Block J (Chui Fu House) were found to be shortened by up to seven meters compared with the standard requirement. Foundation strengthening works was then carried out in the block and completed in 2002. It was resold to the public in 2007. Tin Lai Court ( Chinese : 天麗苑 ) is a HOS estate in Tin Shui Wai, near Tin Tsz Estate. It has only one Harmony-typed block built in 1997. Tin Heng Estate ( Chinese : 天恆邨 )
420-604: The piles of Blocks K (Chung Po House) and L (Chung Ho House) were found to be shortened by up to seven meters compared with the standard requirement. Foundation strengthening works was then carried out in the block and completed in 2002. 640 units in the two blocks was sold to the public in 2009. Tin Fu Court ( Chinese : 天富苑 ) is a HOS court in Tin Shui Wai, located near Tin Yan Estate, Tin Yuet Estate and Tin Yat Estate. It comprises 16 Concord-type, 41-storeyed blocks completed in 2001 and 2007 respectively. In 1999,
450-555: The People's Republic of China, traditional Chinese characters are standardised according to the Table of Comparison between Standard, Traditional and Variant Chinese Characters . Dictionaries published in mainland China generally show both simplified and their traditional counterparts. There are differences between the accepted traditional forms in mainland China and elsewhere, for example the accepted traditional form of 产 in mainland China
480-587: The United States during the second half of the 19th century, Chinese Americans have long used traditional characters. When not providing both, US public notices and signs in Chinese are generally written in traditional characters, more often than in simplified characters. In the past, traditional Chinese was most often encoded on computers using the Big5 standard, which favored traditional characters. However,
510-493: The inverse is equally true as well. In digital media, many cultural phenomena imported from Hong Kong and Taiwan into mainland China, such as music videos, karaoke videos, subtitled movies, and subtitled dramas, use traditional Chinese characters. In Hong Kong and Macau , traditional characters were retained during the colonial period, while the mainland adopted simplified characters. Simplified characters are contemporaneously used to accommodate immigrants and tourists, often from
540-740: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tin_Heng&oldid=818416974 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Tin Heng Estate This is a list of public housing estates (including Private Sector Participation Scheme (PSPS) , Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) and Tenants' Purchase Scheme (TPS) in Tin Shui Wai New Town , Hong Kong. Tin Chak Estate ( Chinese : 天澤邨 )
570-725: The mainland. The increasing use of simplified characters has led to concern among residents regarding protecting what they see as their local heritage. Taiwan has never adopted simplified characters. The use of simplified characters in government documents and educational settings is discouraged by the government of Taiwan. Nevertheless, with sufficient context simplified characters are likely to be successfully read by those used to traditional characters, especially given some previous exposure. Many simplified characters were previously variants that had long been in some use, with systematic stroke simplifications used in folk handwriting since antiquity. Traditional characters were recognized as
600-682: The majority of Chinese text in mainland China are simplified characters , there is no legislation prohibiting the use of traditional Chinese characters, and often traditional Chinese characters remain in use for stylistic and commercial purposes, such as in shopfront displays and advertising. Traditional Chinese characters remain ubiquitous on buildings that predate the promulgation of the current simplification scheme, such as former government buildings, religious buildings, educational institutions, and historical monuments. Traditional Chinese characters continue to be used for ceremonial, cultural, scholarly/academic research, and artistic/decorative purposes. In
630-983: The merging of previously distinct character forms. Many Chinese online newspapers allow users to switch between these character sets. Traditional characters are known by different names throughout the Chinese-speaking world. The government of Taiwan officially refers to traditional Chinese characters as 正體字 ; 正体字 ; zhèngtǐzì ; 'orthodox characters'. This term is also used outside Taiwan to distinguish standard characters, including both simplified, and traditional, from other variants and idiomatic characters . Users of traditional characters elsewhere, as well as those using simplified characters, call traditional characters 繁體字 ; 繁体字 ; fántǐzì ; 'complex characters', 老字 ; lǎozì ; 'old characters', or 全體字 ; 全体字 ; quántǐzì ; 'full characters' to distinguish them from simplified characters. Some argue that since traditional characters are often
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#1732787891904660-677: The official script in Singapore until 1969, when the government officially adopted Simplified characters. Traditional characters still are widely used in contexts such as in baby and corporation names, advertisements, decorations, official documents and in newspapers. The Chinese Filipino community continues to be one of the most conservative in Southeast Asia regarding simplification. Although major public universities teach in simplified characters, many well-established Chinese schools still use traditional characters. Publications such as
690-700: The original standard forms, they should not be called 'complex'. Conversely, there is a common objection to the description of traditional characters as 'standard', due to them not being used by a large population of Chinese speakers. Additionally, as the process of Chinese character creation often made many characters more elaborate over time, there is sometimes a hesitation to characterize them as 'traditional'. Some people refer to traditional characters as 'proper characters' ( 正字 ; zhèngzì or 正寫 ; zhèngxiě ) and to simplified characters as 簡筆字 ; 简笔字 ; jiǎnbǐzì ; 'simplified-stroke characters' or 減筆字 ; 减笔字 ; jiǎnbǐzì ; 'reduced-stroke characters', as
720-833: The predominant forms. Simplified characters as codified by the People's Republic of China are predominantly used in mainland China , Malaysia, and Singapore. "Traditional" as such is a retronym applied to non-simplified character sets in the wake of widespread use of simplified characters. Traditional characters are commonly used in Taiwan , Hong Kong , and Macau , as well as in most overseas Chinese communities outside of Southeast Asia. As for non-Chinese languages written using Chinese characters, Japanese kanji include many simplified characters known as shinjitai standardized after World War II, sometimes distinct from their simplified Chinese counterparts . Korean hanja , still used to
750-521: The set of traditional characters is regulated by the Ministry of Education and standardized in the Standard Form of National Characters . These forms were predominant in written Chinese until the middle of the 20th century, when various countries that use Chinese characters began standardizing simplified sets of characters, often with characters that existed before as well-known variants of
780-636: The traditional character set used in Taiwan ( TC ) and the set used in Hong Kong ( HK ). Most Chinese-language webpages now use Unicode for their text. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommends the use of the language tag zh-Hant to specify webpage content written with traditional characters. In the Japanese writing system , kyujitai are traditional forms, which were simplified to create shinjitai for standardized Japanese use following World War II. Kyūjitai are mostly congruent with
810-985: The traditional characters in Chinese, save for minor stylistic variation. Characters that are not included in the jōyō kanji list are generally recommended to be printed in their traditional forms, with a few exceptions. Additionally, there are kokuji , which are kanji wholly created in Japan, rather than originally being borrowed from China. In the Korean writing system , hanja —replaced almost entirely by hangul in South Korea and totally replaced in North Korea —are mostly identical with their traditional counterparts, save minor stylistic variations. As with Japanese, there are autochthonous hanja, known as gukja . Traditional Chinese characters are also used by non-Chinese ethnic groups. The Maniq people living in Thailand and Malaysia use Chinese characters to write
840-518: The ubiquitous Unicode standard gives equal weight to simplified and traditional Chinese characters, and has become by far the most popular encoding for Chinese-language text. There are various input method editors (IMEs) available for the input of Chinese characters . Many characters, often dialectical variants, are encoded in Unicode but cannot be inputted using certain IMEs, with one example being
870-587: The words for simplified and reduced are homophonous in Standard Chinese , both pronounced as jiǎn . The modern shapes of traditional Chinese characters first appeared with the emergence of the clerical script during the Han dynasty c. 200 BCE , with the sets of forms and norms more or less stable since the Southern and Northern dynasties period c. the 5th century . Although
900-507: Was jointly developed by the Housing Authority and Rich Score Development Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Chun Wo Holdings Limited . It started construction in 2000 and was completed in 2003. When completion, the estate was transferred to public rental housing. Traditional Chinese characters Traditional Chinese characters are a standard set of Chinese character forms used to write Chinese languages . In Taiwan ,
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