Chinese character

English

CJKV ideograph 次 in traditional and simplified Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Japanese.

Noun

Chinese character (plural Chinese characters)

1. Any character used in the written form of several languages of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
2. A species of moth, Cilix glaucata.

Synonyms

• Han character
• CJK character
• CJKV character
• Hanzi
• sinogram
• sinograph
• moonrunes (slang, derogatory, plural)

Hypernyms

• character

Hyponyms

• Simplified Chinese character
• Traditional Chinese character

Translations

CJKV character

• Arabic: حَرْف صِينِيّ m (ḥarf ṣīniyy), طَابِع صِينِيّ m (ṭābiʕ ṣīniyy), رَمْز صِينِيّ (ramz ṣīniyy), هَانْزِي m (hanzī), هَانْزِي m (hānzī)
• Bulgarian: кита́йски йеро́глиф m (kitájski jeróglif), Хан йеро́глиф m (Han jeróglif)
• Burmese: တရုတ်စာလုံ (ta.rutcalum)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 漢字／汉字 (hon³ zi⁶), 汉字 (hon³ zi⁶), 唐字 (tong⁴ zi⁶), 字 (yue) (zi⁶)

  Dungan: ханзы (hanzɨ)

  Gan: 漢字／汉字 (hon³ ci²), 汉字 (hon³ ci²)

  Hakka: 漢字／汉字, 汉字 (hon-sṳ)

  Mandarin: 漢字／汉字 (zh) (hànzì), 汉字 (zh) (hànzì), 中國字／中国字 (zh) (zhōngguózì), 中国字 (zh) (Zhōngguózì), 國字／国字 (zh) (guózì), 国字 (zh) (guózì)

  Min Dong: 漢字／汉字 (háng-cê), 汉字 (háng-cê)

  Min-Nan: 漢字／汉字 (zh-min-nan), 汉字 (hàn-lī)

  Wu: 漢字／汉字 (⁵hoe-zy), 汉字 (hoe zr)

• Danish: kinesisk tegn n
• Dutch: Chinees teken n
• Esperanto: ĉina signo
• Finnish: kiinalainen kirjoitusmerkki
• French: sinogramme (fr) m, caractère chinois (fr) m, hanzi (fr) m, kanji (fr) m
• German: chinesisches Zeichen n, Hanzi (de) n
• Hindi: चीनी चरित्र (cīnī caritra)
• Hungarian: kínai írásjegy
• Icelandic: kínverskt tákn n
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• Indonesian: Aksara Tionghoa, Hanzi
• Italian: carattere cinese m
• Japanese: 漢字 (ja) (かんじ, kanji)
• Korean: 한자 (ko) (hanja) (漢字 (ko))
• Macedonian: кине́ски знак m (kinéski znak), ханце (hance)
• Malay: Aksara Cina, Hanzi
• Mongolian: ханз (mn) (xanz), хятад ханз (xjatad xanz)
• Okinawan: 漢字 (かんじ, kanji)
• Persian: حرف چینی (harf-e čini), حرف هان (harf-e hân)
• Portuguese: caractere chinês m
• Russian: кита́йский иеро́глиф m (kitájskij ijeróglif), ханьцзы́ (ru) m (xanʹczý), кита́йская пи́сьменность f (kitájskaja písʹmennostʹ), кита́йское письмо́ n (kitájskoje pisʹmó), кита́йская гра́мота f (kitájskaja grámota) (can also be derogatory, "something unreadable")
• Serbo-Croatian: кинески карактер m, kineski karakter m
• Spanish: carácter chino m, (colloquial) letras chinas f pl, hanzi (es) m
• Swedish: kinesiska tecken, hanzi (sv)
• Tamil: சீன எழுத்துமுறை (cīṉa eḻuttumuṟai)
• Telugu: చైనీస్ లిపి (cainīs lipi)
• Thai: อักษรจีน (àk-sɔ̌ɔn jiin), ฮั่นจื้อ (hân-jʉ̂ʉ)
• Turkish: Çince karakter, Çince yazı karakteri, hanzi
• Ukrainian: Китайська писемність (Kytajsʹka pysemnistʹ)
• Vietnamese: Hán tự (vi) (漢字), chữ Nho (vi) (字儒), (specific to Vietnamese) chữ Nôm (vi) (字喃), chữ Hán (vi)
• Zhuang: sawgun

See also

• kanji
• hanja
• Traditional Chinese
• Simplified Chinese