---
title: "Traditional to Simplified Chinese Converter, Word by Word | Mandarin The Wild"
description: "Paste traditional Chinese and get it in simplified characters, read word by word: 頭髮 becomes 头发 and 乾杯 干杯. Free, no sign-up, nothing kept."
canonical: "https://mandarinthewild.com/traditional-to-simplified"
author: "Mandarin The Wild"
---

Free tool · No sign-up

# Traditional to simplified converter

Paste traditional Chinese and get it in simplified characters, read word by word.

## Simplified

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

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

## Word by word

Most traditional characters have one simplified form, but some depend on the word: 著 is 着 in 看著 (看着) and stays 著 in 著作; 乾 is 干 in 乾杯 and stays 乾 in 乾隆. Each word gets the form it takes.

## When it can’t tell

A character that is written two ways in simplified 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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