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
Article · Svenska
Hanja (eller hancha), den koreanska beteckningen på de traditionella kinesiska tecken (hanzi) som används inom koreanskan. Före 1400-talet var hanja det enda sättet att skriva koreanska på, men den på 1400-talet introducerade skriften hangul är numera den vanligaste i Sydkorea. I Nordkorea har hanja helt avskaffats till förmån för hangul.
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