One, two, three, four, five, land, seven, eight, nine and ten.

The rest of the figures expressed in words are: hundred, thousand, ten thousand, hundred million, yuan (circle), angle, minute, zero and whole.

The Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on National Common Language and Characters, which came into effect on 200 1, clearly stipulates that the state promotes standardized Chinese characters, and at the same time defines the scope of retaining or using traditional Chinese characters:

(1) Cultural relics and historic sites;

(2) variations in surnames;

(3) Artistic works such as calligraphy and seal cutting;

(4) Handwritten inscriptions and signboards;

(five) required by publishing, teaching and scientific research;

(six) special circumstances approved by the relevant departments of the State Council.

Extended data traditional characters, also known as traditional characters, are called traditional characters in Europe and America. Generally speaking, it refers to the Chinese characters replaced by simplified characters in the Chinese character simplification movement, and sometimes it refers to the whole Chinese character regular script and official script writing system before the Chinese character simplification movement. Traditional Chinese has a history of more than three thousand years. Until 1956, it was a standard Chinese character widely used by Chinese people all over the world.

The large-scale Chinese character simplification movement in modern times originated from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the simplified characters mainly came from the ancient script, common characters, variant characters, running script and cursive script. 1935, the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China promulgated the first simplified character list, but it was shelved because of the opposition of Dai, president of the examination institute. 1956 65438+1On October 28th, the State Council, People's Republic of China (PRC) issued the Resolution on Promulgating Simplified Chinese Characters Scheme, and Chinese mainland began to fully implement simplified Chinese characters. In the 1970s, a number of simplified characters appeared, which were later abolished.

At present, traditional Chinese characters are still used in Taiwan Province Province, China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao Special Administrative Region, countries with Chinese cultural circle and overseas Chinese communities such as Singapore and Malaysia. In the case of cultural relics, different surnames, calligraphy seal cutting, handwritten inscriptions and special needs, traditional Chinese characters are retained or used in Chinese mainland.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Traditional Chinese Characters