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title: "Simplified to Traditional Chinese Converter, Word by Word | Mandarin The Wild"
description: "Paste simplified Chinese and get it in traditional characters, read word by word: 头发 becomes 頭髮 and 发现 發現, 干杯 乾杯 and 干活 幹活. Free, no sign-up."
canonical: "https://mandarinthewild.com/simplified-to-traditional"
author: "Mandarin The Wild"
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Free tool · No sign-up

# Simplified to traditional converter

Paste simplified Chinese and get it in traditional characters, read word by word, so 头发 becomes 頭髮 and 发现 發現.

## Traditional

[Traditional to simplified](https://mandarinthewild.com/traditional-to-simplified)

Your text shows here in traditional characters as soon as you paste.

## Word by word

One simplified character can stand for two traditional ones, and the word decides which: 发 is 髮 in 头发 (頭髮) and 發 in 发现 (發現); 干 is 乾 in 干杯 and 幹 in 干活.

## When it can’t tell

A character that is written two ways in traditional characters, with no word around it to say which, stays as you wrote it, dotted, and the line under the text names it. Nothing is guessed.

## Your text

Up to 8,192 characters. Nothing is kept. / jumps to the box.

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