Hanja

E139773

Hanja is the set of traditional Chinese characters historically used to write Korean, especially for proper names, academic terms, and classical texts.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Hanja canonical 12

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese character set
logographic script
writing system
alternativeName Sino-Korean characters
basedOn Traditional Chinese characters
coexistsWith Hangul
componentOf Korean personal names
Korean place names
declineBeganIn 20th century
declineReason official promotion of Hangul
derivedFrom Chinese characters
hasTransliteration Hanja (Latin script)
historicallyDominantBefore Hangul adoption
historicallyUsedIn North Korea
introducedFrom China
introductionPeriod early centuries CE
nativeName 한자
notOfficiallyUsedIn North Korean public writing
notUsedToWrite most native Korean words
native Korean grammatical endings
officialStatusIn South Korean education curriculum
primarilyUsedFor academic terms
classical texts
legal documents (historically)
newspaper headlines (historically)
proper names
readingSystem Sino-Korean readings
relatedScript Hanzi
Hán tự
Kanji
scriptType logographic
standardizedIn Joseon
surface form: Joseon dynasty
taughtAs subject in South Korean schools
unicodeBlock CJK Unified Ideographs
usedBy historians
legal professionals
scholars
usedForLanguage Korean
usedIn Korea
Korean classical literature
Korean historical documents
South Korea
usedToDisambiguate homophones in Korean
writingDirection left-to-right
top-to-bottom
writingSystemFamily CJK scripts
writingSystemFor Sino-Korean vocabulary

How these facts were elicited

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.