文白异读

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 文白异读 – see 文白異讀 (“the phenomenon of a character having two different readings, literary and vernacular, in the varieties of Chinese”). (This term is the simplified form of 文白異讀).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.