HK Trad Characters vs Taiwan Trad Characters

[calibre2001]

I've been watching several shows from both places and I noted differences in the traditional Hanzi used, such as:-

HK :甚麼

TW: 什麼

HK:麵

TW: 面

I suspect there's more out there. Any ideas? This is quite surprising.

Presumably, the ROC ,whilst still in control of mainland China back then, did some simplification and Taiwan inherited it?

[skylee]

HK :甚麼

TW: 什麼

In HK 什麼 is also widely used. Some people, like me, prefer 甚麼, though.

HK:麵

TW: 面

I am pretty sure 面 is wrong for noodles in TW. Some people may use 面 because they are lazy to write the other strokes.

IMO the characters used in HK and TW are basically the same, except for a few like 著 vs 着.

[Yuchi]

裏 and 裡 for simplified 里

Don't know which is whose though.

[Koneko]

I am pretty sure 面 is wrong for noodles in TW. Some people may use 面 because they are lazy to write the other strokes

Yes, I think I know why some Taiwanese tend to write 面 instead of 麵.

面 is also accepted in Japanese Kanji, but it does not refer to "noodles" in this case.

Japanese culture is quite popular in Taiwan. Hence, some people tend to follow them. Maybe?

By the way, 麵 (for noodels) in Japanese Kanji is same as Chinese Hanzi.

K.

[lpascoe]

I've never seen 面in place of 麵 in Taiwan. Suspect it was a typo? See lots of those! I am just a rookie Chinese reader, so if I can spot typos in crappy novels and subtitles on TV...etc., there must be a tonne of them

Both 甚麼 and 什麼 get used in Taiwan but the latter is way more common.

[calibre2001]

Hi people,

Thank you very much for the responses. I was just to gauge how big the differences (if any) in HK and TW traditional characters used are really in reality.