Research by Professor Cheng Chao-ming of Taiwan University's Psychology Department indicates that learning to read and write involves both "distinguishing words and characters" and "differentiating the meaning of characters"; neither of these is related to the number of brush strokes in a character.
台大心理系教授鄭昭明的研究指出，文字的學習涉及「字詞的區辨」與「字義的辨識」，兩者都跟筆畫的繁簡無關。