Intellectuals resisted fiercely, some out of the belief that China's writing system was superior to any other, and unified a land of many dialects far better than a phonetic system, others on simple sentimental grounds.Many claimed it could not be done, despite the examples of Korea, which managed the trick in the 15th century, and Vietnam which, like China, has a tonal language with many homonyms but switched successfully to an alphabetic system. In the end Mao settled on a halfway step: cutting the number of strokes in some Chinese characters (from 18 to four in the case of feng, which means "abundant", and is shown above).
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