hanja

See also: Hanja

English

Alternative forms

• Hanja

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 한자 (漢字, hanja, “Chinese characters”), from Middle Chinese 漢 (MC hɑn^H, “Han dynasty; China”) + Middle Chinese 字 (MC d͡zɨ^H, “[written] character”) (compare Cantonese 漢字 (hon³ zi⁶), Japanese 漢字 (kanji), Mandarin 漢字 (hànzì), Vietnamese Hán tự). Doublet of kanji.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑn.dʒə/, /ˈhɑn.dʒɑ/

Noun

hanja (plural hanja)

1. The Han character script used to write Korean, particularly in classical literature. Compare hangeul, the Korean phonetic script.

Related terms

• hanjaeo
• hanmun
• hanzi
• kanji
• Hán tự

Translations

Han character script used to write Korean

• German: Hanja (de) n
• Hungarian: handzsa
• Korean: 한자 (ko) (hanja) (漢字 (ko))

• Russian: ханча́ f (xančá)
• Turkish: hanca, hanja

Anagrams

• Jahan