The modern shapes of traditional Chinese characters first appeared with the emergence of the clerical script during the Han dynasty and have been more or less stable since the 5th century (during the Southern and Northern Dynasties

Traditional Chinese characters are known by different names within the Chinese-speaking world. The government of Taiwan officially calls

In the past, Traditional Chinese was most often rendered using the Big5 character encoding scheme, a scheme that favours Traditional Chinese. However, Unicode, which gives equal weight to both simplified and traditional Chinese characters, has become

In Japanese, kyūjitai is the now-obsolete, non-simplified form of simplified (shinjitai) Jōyō kanji. These non-simplified characters are mostly congruent with the traditional characters in

• The east square of Guangzhou railway station in 1991. Notice the prevalence of traditional Chinese characters as brand logos during that time,

When printing text, people in mainland China and Singapore use the simplified system. In writing, most people use informal, sometimes

The World Wide Web Consortium recommends the use of the language tag zh-Hant as a language attribute and Content-Language value to specify web-page content in Traditional Chinese.