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Hanja ( Korean : 한자; Hanja : 漢字, Korean pronunciation: [ha (ː)ntɕ͈a] ), alternatively known as 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. Hanja-eo ( 한자어, 漢字 語 ...
Korean mixed script ( Korean : 국한문혼용; Hanja : 國漢文混用) is a form of writing the Korean language that uses a mixture of the Korean alphabet or hangul ( 한글) and hanja ( 漢字, 한자, 韓㐎 ), the Korean name for Chinese characters. The distribution on how to write words usually follows that all native Korean words ...
Hangul is the official writing system throughout Korea, both North and South. It is a co-official writing system in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and Changbai Korean Autonomous County in Jilin Province, China. Hangul has also seen limited use by speakers of the Cia-Cia language in Indonesia.
Han-Han Tae Sajŏn. Han-Han Dae Sajeon is the generic term for Korean hanja -to- hangul dictionaries. There are several such dictionaries from different publishers. The most comprehensive one, published by Dankook University Publishing, contains 53,667 Chinese characters and 420,269 compound words. This dictionary was a project of the Dankook ...
Sino-Korean vocabulary or Hanja-eo ( Korean : 한자어; Hanja : 漢字 語) refers to Korean words of Chinese origin. Sino-Korean vocabulary includes words borrowed directly from Chinese, as well as new Korean words created from Chinese characters, and words borrowed from Sino-Japanese vocabulary. Many of these terms were borrowed during the ...
Sino-Xenic vocabularies. Sino-Xenic vocabularies are large-scale and systematic borrowings of the Chinese lexicon into the Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese languages, none of which are genetically related to Chinese. The resulting Sino-Japanese, Sino-Korean and Sino-Vietnamese vocabularies now make up a large part of the lexicons of these languages.
Translation of "That old man is 72 years old" in Vietnamese, Cantonese, Mandarin (in simplified and traditional characters ), Japanese, and Korean. In internationalization, CJK characters is a collective term for graphemes used in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, which each include Chinese characters.
The Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese languages are collectively referred to as CJKV, or just CJK, since modern Vietnamese is no longer written with Chinese characters at all. In a similar way to the use of Latin and ancient Greek roots in English, the morphemes of Classical Chinese have been used extensively in all these languages to ...