Chinese character

English thumb|360px|right|CJKV ideograph mul 次 Hani in traditional and simplified Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Japanese. thumb|Traditional (top) and simplified (bottom) versions of the Chinese characters meaning "China"; pronounced "Zhōngguó". right|thumb|The silvery scales in the middle of a Chinese character moth's wings are fancied to resemble letters or Chinese characters, hence the name. Pronunciation en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Chinese character.wav Southern England Noun Any character used in the written form of several languages of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. en https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-126081-3026/ 1669 John Nievhoff w:John Ogilby An embassy from the East-India Company An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China John Macock London 163 https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-126081-3026/page/n196/ There are no Publick Schools in all China (though ſome Writers have erroneouſly ſet forth the contrary) but every perſon chuſes his own Maſter, by whom he is taught in his Houſe, at his own charge. And in regard of the great difficulty in teaching the Chineſe Characters, in reſpect of their vaſt number and variety, it is impoſſible for one to teach many ſeveral perſons ; and therefore every Maſter of a Family takes an Intſructer into his Houſe for his Children, of whom if there be two or three to learn, they are as many as one Tutor can well teach. en 1912 w:Arthur Henderson Smith Uplifting Leaders The Uplift of China https://archive.org/details/upliftofchina00smit/ 1203455 117 https://archive.org/details/upliftofchina00smit/page/117/ Had it not been for the casual discovery in the year 1625 of a deeply buried Xi'an Stele black marble tablet near Hsi-an containing nearly 1,700 Chinese characters, and a long list of names of priests in Syriac, the fact that such a sect rooted itself in the Celestial Empire would never have been believed, as indeed after the tablet was unearthed it was for a long time discredited. Any member of the species Cilix glaucata species of moths. Synonyms en Han character en CJK character en CJKV character en Hanzi en sinogram en sinograph en moonrunes slang derogatory plural Hypernyms en character Hyponyms en Simplified Chinese character en Traditional Chinese character Translations CJKV character Hanzi Arabic: ar حَرْف صِينِيّ m, ar طَابِع صِينِيّ m, ar رَمْز صِينِيّ, ar هَانْزِي m hanzī, ar هَانْزِي m Armenian: hy հիերոգլիֆ Bulgarian: bg кита́йски йерогли́ф m, bg хан йерогли́ф m Burmese: my တရုတ်စာလုံ Chinese: Cantonese: yue 漢字, yue 唐字, yue 字 zi6 Dungan: dng ханзы Eastern Min: cdo 漢字 háng-cê Gan: gan 漢字 hon3 ci2 Hakka: hak 漢字 hon-sṳ Hokkien: nan-hbl 漢字, nan-hbl 汉字 hàn-jī, hàn-lī Mandarin: cmn 漢字, cmn 中國字, cmn 國字 Wu: wuu 漢字 Danish: da kinesisk tegn n Dutch: nl Chinees teken n Esperanto: eo ĉina signo Finnish: fi kiinalainen kirjoitusmerkki French: fr sinogramme m, fr caractère chinois m, fr hanzi m, fr kanji m Galician: gl carácter chinés m German: de chinesisches Zeichen n, de Hanzi n, de chinesisches Schriftzeichen n Hindi: hi चीनी चरित्र Hungarian: hu kínai írásjegy, hu kínai karakter Icelandic: is kínverskt tákn n Ido: io Indonesian: id aksara Tionghoa, id Hanzi Irish: ga carachtar Sínise m, ga Hansaí m Italian: it carattere cinese m Japanese: ja 漢字 かんじ, kanji Korean: ko 한자(漢字) Macedonian: mk кинески знак m, mk ханце Malay: ms Aksara Cina, ms Hanzi Mongolian: Cyrillic: mn ханз, mn хятад ханз Okinawan: ryu 漢字 かんじ, kanji Persian: fa حرف چینی harf-e čini, fa حرف هان harf-e hân Polish: pl znak pisma chińskiego m Portuguese: pt caractere chinês m Romanian: ro caracter chinezesc n, ro caracter chinez n Russian: ru кита́йский иеро́глиф m, ru ханьцзы́ m, ru кита́йская пи́сьменность f, ru кита́йское письмо́ n, ru кита́йская гра́мота f can also be derogatory, "something unreadable" Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh кинески карактер m Latin: sh kineski karakter m Spanish: es carácter chino m, colloquial es letras chinas f-p, es caracter chino m Swedish: sv kinesiska tecken, sv hanzi Tamil: ta சீன எழுத்துமுறை Telugu: te చైనీస్ లిపి Thai: th อักษรจีน àk-sɔ̌ɔn jiin, th ฮั่นจื้อ Turkish: tr Çince karakter, tr Çince yazı karakteri, tr hanzi Ukrainian: uk кита́йська писе́мність f Uyghur: ug خەنزۇ يېزىقى Vietnamese: vi Hán tự (vi 漢字), vi chữ Nho (vi 字儒), specific to Vietnamese vi chữ Nôm (vi 字喃), vi chữ Hán Zhuang: za sawgun See also en kanji en hanja en Traditional Chinese en Simplified Chinese en Moths Writing systems Han characters Chinese