The debate and struggle on traditional and simplified Chinese characters cannot be ignored in the context of Chinese international education. Standing on which Chinese Character teaching position should be considered on the features of this two characters systems and learner’s personal experience. Different positions will have different effects on Chinese teaching difficulties, the difficulty of Chinese teaching is the Chinese character, on this premise, the effects of traditional and simplified Chinese character to Chinese learning cannot be ignored especially. Based on the analysis of 3000 traditional and simplified Chinese characters, we draw the conclusion that the significantly decrease of simplified characters’ strokes is far priors the negative effects on characters’ motivation. Furthermore, we suggest that simplified Chinese characters should be chosen at the primary stage of TCSL globally.

here are two ways of segmenting Chinese characters: form-based segmentation and etymology-based segmentation, which have come up with different conclusions. They, with their own theories and values, are complementary to each other, and serve Chinese character teaching in different ways from different perspectives. Form-based segmentation may produce the minimum form units of characters, which can be arranged into the basic form units. Basic form units can help character learners to get an initial knowledge of the form of characters, and thus to lay a good foundation for character learning.