Traditional Chinese characters
[[Mainland China]] adopted [[simplified Chinese characters]] in 1956. They are also used in [[Singapore]] and [[Malaysia]]. [[Traditional Chinese characters]] are used in [[Hong Kong]], [[Macau]] and [[Taiwan]]. Postwar Japan has used its own less drastically simplified characters, [[Shinjitai]], since 1946, while [[South Korea]] has limited its use of Chinese characters, and [[Vietnam]] and [[North Korea]] have completely abolished their use in favour of [[Vietnamese alphabet]] and [[Hangul]], respectively.