汉字 — meaning in English

English meaning

• hanja noun The Han character script used to write Korean, particularly in classical literature.
• kanji noun The system of writing Japanese using characters borrowed from Chinese, where each character can represent a whole word or concept.

Senses

汉字 is used for these senses in English:

• Chinese character Any character used in the written form of several languages of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
• hanja The Han character script used to write Korean, particularly in classical literature.
• kanji Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language.

hanja — full definition

1. noun The Han character script used to write Korean, particularly in classical literature.
2. noun Any individual Han character as used in the Korean language.

kanji — full definition

1. noun The system of writing Japanese using characters borrowed from Chinese, where each character can represent a whole word or concept.
2. noun A single character used in this system.

Related Chinese words