Talk:Modern Chinese characters

Important discussion
There was a "delete or keep" discussion on this article for a week. Now the question has become "whether or not this should stay in the main space or be relocated".

The creator prefers the article to stay. So far, there are 3 editors selected "Keep", and nobody have optioned "delete" or "relocate". Please join the discussion to help improve this article. Thanks. Ctxz2323 (talk) 00:13, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Add me to the delete tally the next inevitable time this comes up. The current content of the article is just a poorly phrased rehash of Chinese characters, wanting to just rephrase everything while still talking about both traditional and simplified forms together apparently just because the editors got a copy of Su (?). Does anyone else distinguish the topic in this way? The Chinese Wiki doesn't seem to, as far as the current links suggest. What is the possible use? and why is anything useful here not simply being added to the main Chinese characters article?


 * In the meantime, move elsewhere until it isn't just a worse rehash and of Chinese characters; properly distinguishes its topic in a useful and non-completely-repetitive way; and isn't covered in notes about what it plans to add to itself later while still sitting in the main article space. —  Llywelyn II   13:32, 26 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Also . If the thing has been rapidly proposed for deletion twice in quick succession, there are at least two very prominent voices opting to delete (now three, which equals your current tally). [Edit: Looking through the discussions to make sure it wasn't just one cranky editor, nope: and  are—theoretically—separate people.  and  were also (at least at the time) both in favor of merging to the appropriate articles or removing to draft space until this was in much better and less repetitive shape. That's currently 5-to-"3", even if you forgot to count some of your (at times very weak) support in the first discussion.]


 * For what it's worth, I hate to newbies. This does, however, currently seem like an entirely unnecessary  that has nothing in it that can't be better dealt with by merging to appropriate articles with standard English names for the topic. "Modern" characters either means non-ancient (in which case you're starting with the Han at the latest), computerized (separate topic), or formally acceptable (e.g. for Chinese birth certificates). There is no aspect of that which isn't better dealt with by linking to those specific separate topics from the right sections of the main characters article, which is after all mostly about characters in present use. All of this desire to be helpful should be redirected into actually helpful ways.


 * Alternatively, if the desire really is to just rewrite the Chinese characters article, do that at the Simple English Wikipedia article where it's a better intro for ESL users anyway. The Chinese characters article we currently have has 4.5k edits over 20 years from 100s of editors. That doesn't make it perfect by any means but rehashing it all should be better handled on its talk page, not on a fork of identical content almost all sourced to the same book currently entirely unused by our main article. If Su's work is really this important, it should be there and, when there's enough, things will naturally fork off in the appropriate ways. — Llywelyn II   14:03, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

I quite frankly do not understand the concept of this article. I came across it by chance, following a See also link at the bottom of the Chinese character article that was recently added there. I understand that the creator is currently working on this article, but its status seems to me very far from being ready for the encyclopedia, it duplicates information already found more effectively in the encyclopedia, and above all I am not sure that "modern Chinese characters" is really even a well-defined enough concept at this time to justify an article. Hftf (talk) 06:11, 1 September 2023 (UTC)


 * The mere existence of at least 3 dedicated textbooks may be enough to justify a subject in wiki, though the article is still in development.
 * And in every textbook on "modern Chinese" (现代汉语, 現代漢語) in China, you are like to find a chapter on "modern Chinese characters". Ctxz2323 (talk) 07:56, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
 * [you are likely to find], sorry for the typo. Ctxz2323 (talk) 08:30, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
 * As an academic subject, "Modern Chinese characters" is a part of "Chinese characters", and it is natural for the 2 wiki articles to share some information. What is important is the new article put much more attention on modern Chinese characters (not on ancient characters) and tell you much more useful information about this area, such as the section on "the orders of Chinese characters", which is not found in the older/mother article. Ctxz2323 (talk) 08:27, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
 * If you compare section "Orders of modern Chinese characters" with section "Indexing" in the two articles carefully, you will see the differences in contents and in expressions. Some contents of "Orders of modern Chinese characters" have grown into sub-articles, and together they present much more information about Chinese character sorting and retrieving. Ctxz2323 (talk) 09:50, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

Other articles
I've moved the following text from the article to this talk page:
 * 1) Chinese character orders (reviewed, July 4, 2023)
 * 2) Pinyin alphabetical order (reviewed, July 4, 2023)
 * 3) Stroke-based sorting (reviewed, June 20, 2023)
 * 4) GB stroke-based order (reviewed, June 21, 2023)
 * 5) YES stroke alphabetical order (reviewed)
 * 6) Chinese character forms (moved to main space on September 29, 2023)
 * 7) Chinese character strokes (moved to main space on July 28, 2023)
 * 8) Stroke number (reviewed, September 13, 2023)
 * 9) Chinese character components (moved to main space on September 3, 2023)
 * 10) Chinese whole characters (moved to main space on September 12, 2023)
 * 11) Chinese character sounds (reviewed, September 19, 2023.)
 * 12) Chinese character meanings (moved to main space on September 26, 2023)
 * 13) Chinese character internal structures (moved to mainspace on October 10, 2013)
 * 14) Chinese character rationalization (moved to main space on October 27, 2013)
 * 15) Chinese character education (moved to main space on November 3, 2013)
 * 16) Chinese character IT (moved to main space on November 25, 2023)
 * 17) Chinese character sets (moved to main space on December 21, 2023)
 * 18) Chinese character frequency (moved to main space on December 23, 2023)

Per WP:SELFREF, an article's text should avoid meta-discussion of other articles. — BillHPike (talk, contribs) 00:27, 15 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks! Ctxz2323 (talk) 14:09, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Change of section titles
The second section of the article is about the number (quantity) and character sets of modern Chinese characters, and the title has been changed into "Indexing". I don't know why.

Change of section titles (2)
The second section of the article is about the number (quantity) and character sets of modern Chinese characters, and the title has been changed into "Indexing". I don't know why.

Over 24 hours have passed and no answer to my question yet. Ctxz2323 (talk) 08:18, 17 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Another day has passed, and still no answer. If no good reasons for the change, I will restore the original title. Ctxz2323 (talk) 09:06, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
 * I can't speak for, who performed the change, but most of the section name titles looked reasonable to me. It's clear the topic of the article is "modern Chinese characters", so it's not necessary to repeat it in section headers, which should generally be kept brief. The "Indexing" one in particular I'm not sure about, but I haven't read the article recently.Incidentally, Ctx2323, when someone edits a page they may not be watching it, so it's usually a good idea to mention them by name if you're asking a question on an article talk page. You can do this using u or ping, the second of which adds additional formatting. Folly Mox (talk) 12:12, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you, again for your helpful information. And sorry for my carelessness.
 * In Chinese characters, there is a section entitled "Indexing" (Chinese characters), which is about character orders or collation, not character numbers and sets. Ctxz2323 (talk) 14:10, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Category:Chinese language
May I ask why Modern Chinese characters is removed from Category:Chinese language?

Copied from "Modern Chinese characters: Revision history - Wikipedia" : "curprev 20:07, 16 October 2023‎ Remsense talk contribs‎ 51,879 bytes −30‎  removed Category:Chinese language using HotCat Adding/removing category/ies undothank".

By the way, I am very grateful to Remsense for his/her many good edits to our article. Ctxz2323 (talk) 01:35, 20 October 2023 (UTC)


 * 'chinese characters' is a subcategory of 'chinese language', and generally articles shouldn't be categorized under both a parent category and its its subcategories Remsense  聊  02:02, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
 * oh, i always forget to link the obvious reference i should! this is from WP:CAT Remsense  聊  02:13, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Understand. You did it right.
 * And thanks. Ctxz2323 (talk) 08:00, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Why page needed?
Subsection "Historical development" ended with sentence "At least five textbooks have been published in this area.[15][9][10][16][17]"

The sources cited are the 5 books in whole. Why do I need to give page numbers? as required by: Yin & Wang 2007, p. [page needed]. ^ Gao, Fei & Fan 1993, p. [page needed]. Ctxz2323 (talk) 02:22, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Requesst for re-rating
This article was rated as Stub-class when some sections were still empty. Now they are all filled with contents, and a re-rating will be much appreciated.

By the way, we have been working very hard on the article for over 7 months since its creation.

Thanks for your attention. Ctxz2323 (talk) 01:51, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ — BillHPike (talk, contribs) 12:33, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Ctxz2323 (talk) 14:38, 19 December 2023 (UTC)