Singapore's Chinese Characters were introduced to the island during the time that it was a British colony in the 1920s. The development of Singapore's Chinese characters is divided into three periods:

1. Before 1969 : Used Traditional Chinese Characters
2. 1969-1976: The Ministry of Education
   Ministry of Education (Singapore)
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    promulgated the Table of Simplified Characters , which differed from the Simplified Chinese Characters of the People's Republic of China
   People's Republic of China
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3. After 1976: fully adopted the Simplified Chinese Characters of the People's Republic of China
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   . In 1977, the second attempt to simplify the characters was stopped, ending the long period of confusion associated with simplification.

1969 Table of Simplified Characters

The 1969 Table of Simplified Characters was also known as the "502 Table of Simplified Characters" or simply "502". This table listed a total of 502 commonly used Simplified Characters. It contains 11 characters unique to Singapore, 38 characters simplified in different ways compared to that of mainland China

Mainland China

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, and 29 characters whose left or right radical were not simplified.

Simplifications Examples are as follows:

• 要 → 𡚩
• 信 → 伩
• 窗 → 囪
• 貌 → 皃
• 嘴 → 咀
• 留 → 畄
• 答 → 荅
• 覆 → 覄
• 算 → 祘
• 解 → 觧
• 剎 → 杀

Different ways of simplification as compared to those of Mainland China

• 槟 → 梹
• 拨 → 揆
• 场 → 㘯
• 斗 → 鬥（not simplified for the meaning of "fight"）
• 读 → 讀（upper right: 士 lower right: 头）
• 谏 → 諫（right part should be the right part of 拣）
• 恶 → 悪
• 发 → 発
• 飞 → 飛（exterior: 飞 interior: 去）
• 废 → 廃
• 无 → 無（actually 丿+一+二+厶）
• 芜 → 蕪（actually 艹+丿+一+二+厶）
• 抚 → 撫（actually 扌+丿+一+二+厶）
• 复 → 覄
• 关 → 関（outer part be simplified as 门）
• 国 → 囯
• 划 → 㓰
• 开 → 開outer part be simplified as 门）
• 裤 → 衭
• 来 → 耒
• 丽 → 丽
• 卖 → 卖（upper part: 士 lower part:头）
• 泼 → 溌
• 让 → 誏
• 赛 → 𡧳
• 狮 → 𤞏
• 赎 → 贖（upper right: 士 lower right: 头）
• 肃 → 粛
• 岁 → 歲（top: 止 bottom : ⺀(two dots)）
• 台 → 枱
• 团 → 團（outside: 囗, inside: 专）
• 萧 → 蕭（top: 艹 bottom: 粛）
• 箫 → 簘
• 续 → 續（upper right: 士 lower right: 头）
• 亚 → 亜
• 杂 → 亲（actually should be left part of 雜）
• 职 → 聀
• 纸 → 帋

Radicals

Radical (Chinese character)

A Chinese radical is a component of a Chinese character. The term may variously refer to the original semantic element of a character, or to any semantic element, or, loosely, to any element whatever its origin or purpose...

 which are not simplified

• 纲 → 糹
• 经 → 糹
• 练 → 糹
• 绳 → 糹
• 线 → 糹
• 药 → 糸
• 绘 → 糸
• 继 → 糸
• 织 → 糸
• 观 → 見
• 觉 → 見
• 览 → 見
• 缆 → 見
• 贱 → 貝
• 质 → 貝
• 颈 → 頁
• 饥 → 飠
• 讥 → 訁
• 讲 → 訁
• 识 → 訁
• 译 → 訁
• 议 → 訁
• 证 → 訁
• 鸡 → 鳥
• 骄 → 馬
• 验 → 馬
• 钱 → 釒
• 铁 → 釒
• 钟 → 釒

See also

• Singaporean Mandarin
  Singaporean Mandarin
  Singaporean Mandarin is a variety of Mandarin Chinese widely spoken in Singapore. It is one of the four official languages of Singapore along with English, Malay and Tamil....
  
  
• Singdarin
  Singdarin
  Colloquial Singaporean Mandarin, also known as Singdarin is an interlanguage native to Singapore. In Taiwan, this language variety is known as Singnese . It is based on Mandarin but has a large amount of English in its vocabulary. For this reason, Singdarin is sometimes known as "Anglo-Chinese"...
  
  
• Languages of Singapore
• Simplified Chinese Characters