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Topic: How to tell the diffierence between t or s chinese
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Vegas10 Member
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posted January 08, 2012 08:00 AM
just as the topic says I have alot of older chinese cards but don't know the difference between the 2.
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stacker Member
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posted January 08, 2012 09:14 AM
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.
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Volcanon Member
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posted January 08, 2012 02:55 PM
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.
[Edited 1 times, lastly by Volcanon on January 08, 2012]
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NumaPompilius New Member
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posted January 08, 2012 03:17 PM
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.
[Edited 1 times, lastly by NumaPompilius on January 08, 2012]
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Dresden Member
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posted January 09, 2012 05:41 PM
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.
[Edited 1 times, lastly by Dresden on January 09, 2012]
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Phyrexian Angel Member
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posted January 09, 2012 05:58 PM
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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