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lilac_counselor
 April 15, 2010 at 06:06 AM posted in General Discussion

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user76423
 March 27, 2010 at 12:33 PM

你好，有沒有人在 ChinesePod (播客作者?) 決定哪些繁體字用? 也許你可以問或人誰知道。謝謝.

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lilac_counselor
 March 27, 2010 at 06:33 AM

按照中国的法律，教外国人只教简体字和普通话。我没有学过繁体字，我们只写“周末”

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user76423
 March 26, 2010 at 04:33 PM

Re: "Finishing Work for the Weekend"

I have learned that the traditional form of 周末 is 週末, and not 周末 (that's displayed here @CPod as traditional form).

My (trad.) IME also shows only 週末 after typing "zhoumo".

Wenlin shows both, but seems to prefer 周, saying "A variant form is 週".

My Taiwanese dictionary says:

周 zhou1 = circumference; completely; a surname

週 zhou1 = week; circuit.

So 週末 seems to be the "more correct" ;-) traditional form.

What's more, even CPod seems not to be consistent:

In the suppl. vocab you see:

週六 zhōuliù Saturday

週日 zhōurì Sunday

What is your opinion?