High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The development of Singapore's Chinese characters is divided into 3 periods: before 1969 : Used Traditional Chinese Characters, 1969-1976: Ministry of Education promulgated Table of Simplified Characters, which differed from the Simplified Chinese Characters of People's Republic of China, and after 1976: fully adopted the Simplified Chinese Characters of 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. The 1969 Table of Simplified Characters was also known as the "502 Table of Simplified Characters" or simply "502". This table listed a total of 502 commonly used Simplified Characters. It contains 11 characters unique only to Singapore, 38 characters simplified in different ways compared to that of mainland China, and 29 characters whose left or right radical were not simplified.