Hanja

Also known as Hancha

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.

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Hanja are Chinese characters that were adapted to write the Korean language, initially used to express Literary Chinese and later Korean itself. They have been part of Korean writing since ancient times, particularly from the Gojoseon period onward.

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Key facts

Writing system.name: Hanja
Writing system.sample: Hanja.svg
Writing system.caption: The Korean word (Chinese script) in Hanja (top) and Hangul (bottom).
Writing system.type: Logographic
Writing system.languages: Korean, Classical Chinese
Writing system.time: 400 BC – present
Writing system.fam1: Oracle bone script
Writing system.fam2: Seal script
Writing system.fam3: Clerical script
Writing system.fam4: Regular script
Writing system.sisters: Kanji, traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, Khitan script, Chữ Hán, Chữ Nôm, Jurchen script, Tangut script
Writing system.iso15924: Hani
Korean name/auto.child: yes
Korean name/auto.hangul: ^한@자
Korean name/auto.hanja: 漢字

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Commons category: Hanja
native label: 漢字
inception: 0400-00-00

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Contents

History
Introduction of literary Chinese to Korea
Adaptation of ''hanja'' to Korean
Decline of Hanja
Character formation
''Eumhun''
Education
South
North
Uses
Print media
Dictionaries
Personal names
Toponymy
Academia
Art and culture
Popular usage
Gukja
Yakja
Pronunciation
See also
Notes
References
Citations
Sources

() refers to Sino-Korean vocabulary, which can be written with Hanja, and () refers to Classical Chinese writing, although Hanja is also sometimes used to encompass both concepts. Because Hanja characters have never undergone any major reforms, they more closely resemble traditional Chinese and traditional Japanese characters, although the stroke orders for certain characters are slightly different. Such examples are the characters and , as well as and . Only a small number of Hanja characters were modified or are unique to Korean, with the rest being identical to the traditional Chinese characters. By contrast, many of the Chinese characters currently in use in mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore have been simplified, and contain fewer strokes than the corresponding Hanja characters.