Chinese characters

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For the moth known as the "Chinese character", see Cilix glaucata.
Unless otherwise specified, Chinese text in this article is written in simplified Chinese / traditional Chinese, pinyin order. If the simplified and traditional characters are the same, they are written only once.

Chinese characters
Script type
Logographic
Time period
Bronze Age China to present
DirectionLeft-to-right (modern)
Top-to-bottom, columns right to left (traditional)
LanguagesChinese, Japanese, Korean, Okinawan, Vietnamese, Zhuang, Miao
Related scripts
Parent systems
Oracle bone script
  • Chinese characters
ISO 15924
ISO 15924Hani, 500 Edit this on Wikidata, ​Han (Hanzi, Kanji, Hanja)
Unicode
Unicode alias
Han
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Chinese characters
Hanzi.svg
Hanzi (Chinese character) in traditional (left) and simplified form (right)
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese汉字
Traditional Chinese漢字
Literal meaning"Han characters"
Vietnamese name
VietnameseHán tự
Hán-Nôm漢字
Zhuang name
Zhuang
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