The development of Singapore's Chinese characters can be divided into three periods.
From 1969, the Ministry of Education promulgated the Table of Simplified Characters (simplified Chinese: 简体字表; traditional Chinese: 簡體字表; pinyin: jiǎntǐzì biǎo), which differed from the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme of the China.
[1] After 1976, Singapore fully adopted the simplified Chinese characters of the People's Republic of China.
In 1977, the second attempt to simplify the characters was stopped, ending the long period of confusion associated with simplification.
This table listed a total of 502 commonly used Simplified Characters.