Talk:Simplified Chinese characters

進
進 is most likely not a phono-semantic compound. The Old Chinese pronunciation for 進 is /*[ts][i][n]-s/ or /*ʔslins/, while for 隹, it's /*tur/ or /*tjul/. Those two don't sound alike. Instead, 進 is more likely an ideogrammic compound. LongStylus (talk) 23:20, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

Readability
How easy would it be for someone who has learnt Simplified Chinese Characters to read the Traditional Chinese version (and vice versa)? I taught myself to read basic (printed) Fraktur/German Blackletter - and sometimes use 'the rest of the word' to 'decipher' some of the more ambiguous letters: is the difference between the two systems comparable or would one have to do the equivalent of learning the defunct English letters (thorn, yogh, edda etc)? (And what about previous versions of Chinese characters?) Anna Livia (talk) 12:15, 23 July 2022 (UTC)