Logographic writing systems

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Kanji (; , hiragana: かんじ, Katakana: カンジ, , ) are logographic Chinese characters, historically adapted from Chinese writing scripts, used in the writing of Japanese. They comprised a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used today, along with the subsequently derived syllabic (phonographic) scripts of and . Most Kanji characters have two pronunciations: ''kun'yomi, based on the sounds of vernacular Japanese, where the Kanji is often phonetically transcribed with furigana; and on'yomi, based on the imitation of the original Middle Chinese sound

Hanja (; ), alternatively spelled Hancha, are Chinese characters used to write the Korean language. After characters were introduced to Korea to write Literary Chinese, they were adapted to write Korean as early as the Gojoseon period.

thumb|Egyptian hieroglyphs, including logograms such as the sun disk (⊙, visible several times here)

former logographic writing system for the Vietnamese language using Han ideographs

general term for the various writing styles of Chinese characters in the latter half of the 1st millennium BCE during the Zhou Dynasty

archaic style of Chinese calligraphy; evolved in the Warring States period to the Qin dynasty, was dominant in the Han dynasty, and remained in use through the Wei–Jin periods

handwriting, traditional calligraphic script style of East Asian orthography

cursive style of Chinese writing; not as cursive as grass script (cǎoshū)

Chinese characters used in the Vietnamese traditional writing system

overview of writing varieties of Chinese, unified in Qin dynasty

'''''' (Sawndip: ; ) are Chinese characters used to write the Zhuang languages in the Chinese provinces of Guangxi and Yunnan. is a Zhuang word that means "immature characters". The Zhuang word for Chinese characters used in the Chinese languages is ( 'Han characters'); gun is the Zhuang term for the Han Chinese. Even now, in traditional and less formal domains, Sawndip is more often used than alphabetical scripts.

one of 3 cradles of civilization thought to have developed writing independently

defunct writing system of Canada's Mi'kmaq First Nation

cuneiform writing of the Elamite language

logographic system used to write Toki Pona

pictographic writing system for the Sui language

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history of writing systems used to write Vietnamese language