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Vegas10
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posted January 08, 2012 08:00 AM   Click Here to See the Profile for Vegas10 Click Here to Email Vegas10 Send a private message to Vegas10 Click to send Vegas10 an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote View Vegas10's Have/Want ListView Vegas10's Have/Want List
just as the topic says I have alot of older chinese cards but don't know the difference between the 2.
 
stacker
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As a chinese person, there is no easy way to tell without having both versions of the card in front of you. Being that simplified chinese literally is the same word but with fewer character strokes, you can't only look at one character and tell if it's traditional or simplified.
 
Volcanon
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posted January 08, 2012 02:55 PM   Click Here to See the Profile for Volcanon Click Here to Email Volcanon Send a private message to Volcanon Click to send Volcanon an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote 
The "radicals" have fewer strokes. That's usually the easiest way to tell. If a character has been changed I can usually tell. Note that some of the complicated characters weren't changed. "Eye" comes to mind: It's like four strokes in Japanese, and it's two fairly complicated characters in S Chinese for maybe a total of thirty.

Edit: How much "older" do you mean? All Chinese before Saga was T Chinese. All Chinese between Fifth Dawn and M12 was S Chinese.

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NumaPompilius
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I think the quickest way to tell the difference is the placement of the "period" (or whatever it actually is in Chinese): in Simplified Chinese, the "period" is located along the bottom edge of a line of characters, as it would be in English; in Traditional Chinese, the "period" is centered along a line of characters. For example, compare this this Simplified Chinese Day of Judgment to this Traditional Chinese version.

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Dresden
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That works but not for Ravages of War (both the simplified and traditional have the period in the middle of the line). Hm I wonder if the other P3K cards are like this, hehe.

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Phyrexian Angel
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quote:
Originally posted by Volcanon:
The "radicals" have fewer strokes. That's usually the easiest way to tell. If a character has been changed I can usually tell. Note that some of the complicated characters weren't changed. "Eye" comes to mind: It's like four strokes in Japanese, and it's two fairly complicated characters in S Chinese for maybe a total of thirty.

Edit: How much "older" do you mean? All Chinese before Saga was T Chinese. All Chinese between Fifth Dawn and M12 was S Chinese.


Traditional Chinese cards were back since M11, not M12.

 

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