Chinese characters

Also known as Hanzi, Kanji, Hanja, Hán tự, Chữ Hán, Han characters, Chu Han, Han tu

logographic writing system with Han origin used in the Sinosphere for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and traditional Vietnamese languages

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Chinese characters are a writing system that uses symbols (called logograms) to represent words or meaningful units of language, rather than just sounds like the alphabet does. This system originated in China and has been adopted across East and Southeast Asia, making it important for writing Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and traditional Vietnamese.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: writing system
Subclass of: logographic writing system
Country of origin: China
Based on: proto-writing
Creator: Cangjie
Image: Shi Qiang pan.jpg

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on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles
language of work or name: Vietnamese
facet of: Korean
topic's main category: Category:Han script characters
Commons gallery: Chinese characters
Commons category: Chinese writing
Unicode range: U+2E80-2EFF,U+3000-303F,U+3200-4DBF,U+4E00-9FFF,U+F900-FAFF,U+FE30-FE4F,U+20000-2A6DF,U+2A700-2EE5F,U+2F800-2FA1F,U+30000-3347F
different from: Tangut script
has effect: Sinosphere
name: Han
inception: 1250-00-00