r/TraditionalChinese 1d ago

Black Myth’s next hero: How Zhong Kui, China’s ancient demon-slayer, is stepping into the global spotlight

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r/TraditionalChinese 3d ago

Mahjong Swept Summer Camp This Year: Across the Northeast and New England camp corridor, summer camps have hired mahjong instructors...There’s something about sitting around a table, talking and using their brains that kids are looking for

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r/TraditionalChinese 3d ago

In Taixing, mahjong manufacturing hub in Jiangsu province, factories are redesigning tiles, expanding exports, and racing to meet a sudden wave of American demand

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r/TraditionalChinese 3d ago

Culture Culture Goes Global: How a Chinese county is taking Hanfu and peonies overseas

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r/TraditionalChinese 6d ago

History Highest-ranking Xia Dynasty noble tombs discovered in China, dating to the age of Minoan Crete

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r/TraditionalChinese 8d ago

Literature Inside Asia’s oldest private library, guarding ancient scrolls in the age of AI

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r/TraditionalChinese 8d ago

天啊,她太美了

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必须去仰望的历史


r/TraditionalChinese 9d ago

Can someone translate!

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Hi all - my good friend gave this to me years ago, painted by his grandfather, he couldn’t translate it for me at the time as he doesn’t speak traditional Chinese, anyone able to help me out?


r/TraditionalChinese 11d ago

A group of China’s most popular influencers aren’t performing songs, cracking jokes, or showing off their looks. Instead, they’re traveling the country and exploring examples of half-forgotten traditional Chinese culture — from performances and art forms to wedding rituals

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r/TraditionalChinese 11d ago

Ancient DNA traces origins of zongzi tradition: The study, published in Science Bulletin, used ancient DNA sequencing and chemical analysis to examine leaf-wrapped offerings unearthed from two Warring States-period Chu tombs

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r/TraditionalChinese 11d ago

Beat the heat, drain the damp: why Chinese youth are turning to TCM

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r/TraditionalChinese 17d ago

Culture Why are Chinese people so fond of jade? Tracing a 5,000-year-old cultural connection

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r/TraditionalChinese 23d ago

2,300-year-old grain wine identified in sealed bronze vessel

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r/TraditionalChinese 23d ago

Past Lives: The Tomb of Fu Hao and the Rise of the Shang Dynasty

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r/TraditionalChinese 28d ago

History The forgotten Ryukyu

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r/TraditionalChinese Aug 01 '26

History China’s silkworm farming tradition spread to C.Asia 4,000 years ago, study shows

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r/TraditionalChinese Aug 01 '26

Chinese man discovers family dining table is ancestor’s Qing dynasty academic record

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r/TraditionalChinese Aug 01 '26

Taosi culture (2300 BCE) of China and its connection to the Emperor Yao via Canon of Yao and Shiji

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r/TraditionalChinese Jul 29 '26

History Part One: Sailing with the Wind

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r/TraditionalChinese Jul 25 '26

Who or What was 上帝 Shangdi? Was it the 'high god' of Shang Dynasty? 100% But was it only that and when did it start? In the 舜典 (Canon of Shun), it explicitly states Emperor Shun (of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors era, that predate Xia and Shang) performed ritual worship to Shangdi

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r/TraditionalChinese Jul 24 '26

Traditional Chinese characters change appearance after I send messages (Zhuyin keyboard issue?)

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Hii everyone
I’m having a strange problem with Traditional Chinese input on my phone, and I’m trying to understand what is happening.
I use the Traditional Chinese Zhuyin keyboard. When I type a word and select a character from the suggestions, the character displayed in the keyboard looks correct (the Taiwanese Traditional Chinese form that I expect).
However, after I press send and the message appears in apps like Telegram, ChatGPT, or Apple Notes, some characters are displayed differently. They are still Traditional Chinese characters, but the shape/structure of the strokes changes. Some of them look like simplified or “weird” versions of the traditional characters.
The confusing part is that the character is correct when I select it from the Zhuyin keyboard, but after it is inserted and displayed by another app, it changes visually.
For example:
Writing with Zhuyin → correct Taiwanese Traditional Chinese form
Sending the message → different-looking character appears
This is causing problems because sometimes I don’t recognize characters that other people send me. I’m used to Taiwanese Traditional Chinese characters, so when I see these different glyph forms, I sometimes cannot immediately understand them.
I already tried:
Changing my iPhone region to Taiwan
Using the Traditional Chinese Zhuyin keyboard
Checking language settings
But the issue still happens, especially in Telegram and Apple Notes.
Is this a font/rendering issue (Taiwan vs Hong Kong/Macau glyphs)? Is there a way to force iOS to always display Taiwanese Traditional Chinese characters across all apps?
Thanks for any help!


r/TraditionalChinese Jul 18 '26

Dragonboat Festival at Hetou Old Street, Tangshan

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r/TraditionalChinese Jul 17 '26

The Silk Road: a facilitator of cultural convergence

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r/TraditionalChinese Jul 15 '26

History The origin of the reincarnation of Living Buddhas

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r/TraditionalChinese Jul 15 '26

History China Chat | South China Sea: What History Reveals

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