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正體
简 正体 · 繁 正體Mandarin · pinyin zhèng tǐ
Meanings
- standard form (of a Chinese character)
- plain font style (as opposed to bold or italic)
- printed style (as opposed to cursive)
- (Tw) traditional (i.e. unsimplified) characters
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4–3 · zheng4 ti3
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noun
- the “proper/standard form” of scripts, especially of Chinese characters — (especially Taiwan) synonym of 繁體 /繁体 (fántǐ, “Traditional Chinese”)
- the “proper/standard form” of scripts, especially of Chinese characters — synonym of 楷書 /楷书 (kǎishū, “Regular script”)
- the “proper/standard form” of scripts, especially of Chinese characters — synonym of 印刷體 /印刷体 (yìnshuātǐ, “block letters”)
- main part; body; the thing in itself
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