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.

See also

• Chinese calligraphy
• Chinese character encoding
• Chinese characters for chemical elements
• Chinese characters of Empress Wu
• Chinese input methods for computers
• Earthly Branches
• Eight Principles of Yong
• Heavenly Stems
• Simplified Chinese character
• Stroke order
• Traditional Chinese character
• Shodo Japanese calligraphy
• Xiandai Hanyu changyong zibiao (现代汉语常用字表, modern Chinese characters list; like J?y? kanji in Japan)
• Blissymbols