Chinese Character Converter

How It Works

This tool converts between traditional and simplified Chinese characters. It uses a dictionary of common character mappings.

It is a toy. Beyond single characters it knows only a short list of words, such as 头发 → 頭髮, so it gets many other words wrong. For real text, use OpenCC, which converts whole phrases and handles regional variants.

To read a whole web page in the other script, let the browser do it. Chrome's built-in translation can switch a page between simplified and traditional, and browser extensions built on OpenCC convert every page as it loads.

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Example Conversions

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