hanja
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Noun — A writing system using Han characters that was once used for Korean, especially in older texts.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Korean 한자(漢字) (hanja), from Middle Chinese 漢字 (MC xanH dziH, "Chinese character", literally "Han Chinese + character"). It can be compared with Cantonese 漢字 /汉字 (hon³ zi⁶), Japanese 漢字 (kanji), Mandarin 漢字 /汉字 (hànzì) and Vietnamese Hán tự, and is a doublet of kanji and Hanzi.
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