zhèng

technical
common

Meaning of 正体

正体 means standardized form of Chinese characters; normative glyph; orthographic standard; regular script; standard script (in Chinese calligraphy). Pronounced zhèng tǐ.

  • standardized form of Chinese characters; normative glyph; orthographic standard
  • regular script; standard script (in Chinese calligraphy)
  • print type; roman type (of phonetic/alphabetic scripts)

Definitions & Examples

Zài
zhèng
shì
wén
jiàn
zhōng
yīng
gāi
shǐ使
yòng
zhèng
 
miǎn
shǐ使
yòng
 

Standard character forms should be used in formal documents, avoiding variant forms.

Zhè
de
biāo
zhǔn
zhèng
xiě
shì
lóng
 
ér
shì
nóng
 

The standard orthographic form of this character is 「龍」, not 「竜」.

Tái
wān
shǐ使
yòng
zhèng
zhōng
wén
 
ér
zhōng
guó
shǐ使
yòng
jiǎn
zhōng
wén
 

Taiwan uses traditional Chinese characters, while mainland China uses simplified Chinese characters.