<p>It happens on many characters.I think you  are learning simplified Chinese,according to your picture,够 is right。If Cantonese or traditional Chinese,use the other one.</p>

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Cantonese is a language, not a writing system. It can be written in 粤语白话字 or 标准现代汉语书写系统, either Traditional Chinese Characters or Simplified Chinese Characters can be used in both.
炸鱼薯条德里克
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2014-09-01T13:50:11.543Z
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sfy
<p>够 is the simplified version.  夠 is the traditional version.  </p>

<p>(I wonder if this is a case of the Language Reform Committee -- who were in charge of the simplification of the characters -- needing to be seen to be doing something, so they just switched the 2 components over, box ticked!  Haha.)</p>

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Lillian Chia
<p>够 or 夠 shared the same meaning and same pronunciation. We called this situation as 異體字(Variant character). In Taiwan or Hong Kong, we use 夠 more frequently than 够. In Mainland China, they use the opposite one more frequent. All of us can understand both words. </p>

<p>For more about variant character in Chinese, you may refer to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variant_Chinese_character">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variant_Chinese_character</a></p>

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Another example of a character where the components can move around is qún: 群 vs 羣.
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Daeus Tang
<p>够 or 夠 both mean be enough according to my electronic dictionaries.  I was surprised to find one character in my text "Reading &amp; Writing Chinese," (McNaughton &amp; Li, 1999)</p>

<p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/oeByMm.jpg" alt="GOU"></p>

<p>A different character was in my electronic dictionary (夠). </p>

<p>My first thought was: </p>

<p>Does this happen with other characters or is this an error?</p>

<p>Then I tried typing gou into a different program on the same computer and came up with the second character (having the same meaning).</p>

<p>Which is right? Are there other characters with this behavior?</p>

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2014-09-01T13:20:36.797Z
These two characters were variants in the old times and completely interchangeable. However, currently mainland China picks 够 as the standard one while Taiwan picks 夠.
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够 or 夠 - Two characters, one meaning?
# 够 or 夠 - Two characters, one meaning?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-09-01)

够 or 夠 both mean be enough according to my electronic dictionaries. I was surprised to find one character in my text "Reading & Writing Chinese," (McNaughton & Li, 1999)

![GOU](https://i.sstatic.net/oeByMm.jpg)

A different character was in my electronic dictionary (夠).

My first thought was:

Does this happen with other characters or is this an error?

Then I tried typing gou into a different program on the same computer and came up with the second character (having the same meaning).

Which is right? Are there other characters with this behavior?

**Tags:** characters, character-identification

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: These two characters were variants in the old times and completely interchangeable. However, currently mainland China picks 够 as the standard one while Taiwan picks 夠.  

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### Answer by username_5 on 2014-09-01. Score: 7 | Accepted answer

够 or 夠 shared the same meaning and same pronunciation. We called this situation as 異體字(Variant character). In Taiwan or Hong Kong, we use 夠 more frequently than 够. In Mainland China, they use the opposite one more frequent. All of us can understand both words.

For more about variant character in Chinese, you may refer to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variant_Chinese_character>

> **Comments:**
> **username_6**: Another example of a character where the components can move around is qún: 群 vs 羣.  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2014-09-01. Score: 1

It happens on many characters.I think you are learning simplified Chinese,according to your picture,够 is right。If Cantonese or traditional Chinese,use the other one.

> **Comments:**
> **username_3**: Cantonese is a language, not a writing system. It can be written in 粤语白话字 or 标准现代汉语书写系统, either Traditional Chinese Characters or Simplified Chinese Characters can be used in both.  

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### Answer by username_4 on 2019-06-14. Score: 0

够 is the simplified version. 夠 is the traditional version.

(I wonder if this is a case of the Language Reform Committee -- who were in charge of the simplification of the characters -- needing to be seen to be doing something, so they just switched the 2 components over, box ticked! Haha.)


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