Chinese character

Chinese characters or Han characters (??/??) are logograms used in the written forms of the Chinese language, and to varying degrees in the Japanese and Korean languages (though the latter only in South Korea). Use of Chinese characters has disappeared from the Vietnamese language ? in which they were used until the 20th century ? and from North Korea, where in normal writing they have been completely replaced by Hangul.

Derivatives of Han characters

Besides Korean and Japanese, a number of Asian languages have historically been written with Han characters, or with characters modified from Han characters. They include:

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• Vietnamese language (Chữ nôm)
• Khitan language (:ja:????)
• Tangut language (:fr:Tangoute, :zh:???, http://www.cflac.org.cn/chinaartnews/2003-10/08/content_1024511.htm, http://www.huaxia.com/ssjn/smxx/00197002.html)
• Zhuang language
• Miao language http://www.epochtimes.com/b5/4/4/17/n512718.htm
• Nakhi language (Geba script)

In addition, the Yi script is similar to Han, but is not known to be directly related to it.

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Jurchen language (:ja:????) used a ideographic script consisted of original characters with a few Han borrowings.

Related Topics:
Jurchen language - :ja:????

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