1. Chinese Writing Today

2. Will Chinese abandon characters for an alphabet?

3. This is now highly unlikely. Latin alphabet is perceived as “too foreign” and support for traditional characters has grown. The cultural cost of eliminating characters is too high. Emphasis is on simplification of characters.

4. What are some problems with character simplification? Now people have to learn both traditional and simplified characters to be really educated. Less educated people don’t learn the traditional characters. Homonyms are now written with one character, causing potential confusions. Taiwan and Hong Kong resist using simplified characters. Japanese are using their own system of simplifications.