hanja

See also: Hanja

English

Alternative forms

Hanja

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 한자(漢字) (hanja), from Middle Chinese 漢字 (MC xanH dziH, “Chinese character”, literally “Han Chinese + character”).

Compare Cantonese 漢字／汉字 (hon³ zi⁶), Japanese 漢字 (kanji), Mandarin 漢字／汉字 (hànzì), Vietnamese Hán tự. Doublet of kanji and Hanzi.

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑn.d͡ʒə/, /ˈhɑn.d͡ʒɑ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

hanja (plural hanja)

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

Related terms

Translations

Han character script used to write Korean

Finnish: hanja
German: Hanja (de) n
Hungarian: handzsa (hu)
Korean: 한자(漢字) (ko) (hanja)
Romanian: hanja ?
Russian: ханча́ f (xančá)
Turkish: hanca, hanja

Anagrams

Jahan

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