Chinese characters

E558057

logographic writing system script

Chinese characters are logographic symbols used for writing the Chinese language and several other East Asian languages, each typically representing a morpheme or meaningful unit.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Chinese characters canonical	5
Traditional Chinese characters	2
Chinese character 后	1
Table of General Standard Chinese Characters	1
Written Chinese	1

Statements (67)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	logographic writing system ⓘ script ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Chữ Hán NERFINISHED ⓘ Han characters ⓘ Hanja ⓘ Hanzi ⓘ Kanji ⓘ
canRepresent	syllable ⓘ
classification	ideograms ⓘ loan characters ⓘ phono-semantic compounds ⓘ pictograms ⓘ
culturalRole	central to East Asian calligraphy ⓘ
developedFrom	bronze script ⓘ oracle bone script ⓘ seal script ⓘ
developedInto	clerical script ⓘ cursive script ⓘ regular script ⓘ semi-cursive script ⓘ
encodingStandard	Unicode NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasApproximateCount	tens of thousands of characters ⓘ
hasCommonSubsetSize	a few thousand characters for literacy ⓘ
hasComponentType	phonetic component ⓘ radical ⓘ semantic component ⓘ
hasUnicodeBlock	CJK Unified Ideographs NERFINISHED ⓘ CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A ⓘ CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B ⓘ CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C NERFINISHED ⓘ CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D NERFINISHED ⓘ CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E NERFINISHED ⓘ CJK Unified Ideographs Extension F NERFINISHED ⓘ CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasVariant	Simplified Chinese characters ⓘ Traditional Chinese characters ⓘ
influenced	Japanese writing system ⓘ Korean writing system ⓘ Vietnamese historical writing system ⓘ
inputMethod	pinyin input ⓘ shape-based input methods ⓘ
organizedBy	radicals ⓘ stroke count ⓘ
originatedIn	China NERFINISHED ⓘ
represents	meaningful unit ⓘ
simplifiedIn	Mainland China NERFINISHED ⓘ Singapore NERFINISHED ⓘ
traditionalUsedIn	Hong Kong NERFINISHED ⓘ Macau NERFINISHED ⓘ Taiwan NERFINISHED ⓘ many overseas Chinese communities ⓘ
typicalUnit	morpheme ⓘ
usedFor	writing Classical Chinese ⓘ writing Japanese ⓘ writing Korean in the past ⓘ writing Literary Chinese ⓘ writing Vietnamese in the past ⓘ writing some other East Asian languages ⓘ writing the Chinese language ⓘ
writingDirection	modern horizontal left-to-right ⓘ traditionally vertical columns right-to-left ⓘ
writingMedium	brush ⓘ keyboard input methods ⓘ pen ⓘ
writingSystemOf	Cantonese ⓘ Mandarin Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ other Sinitic languages ⓘ

Referenced by (10)

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

Classical Chinese → writingSystem → Chinese characters ⓘ

Guangzhou Municipal Education Bureau → usesLanguage → Chinese characters ⓘ

this entity surface form: Written Chinese

Jiaoling Hakka → hasWritingSystem → Chinese characters ⓘ

Simplified Chinese → scriptStandardizedBy → Chinese characters ⓘ

this entity surface form: Table of General Standard Chinese Characters

Southern Min → hasWritingSystem → Chinese characters ⓘ

Mandarin Chinese → primaryScriptInHongKongAndMacau → Chinese characters ⓘ

this entity surface form: Traditional Chinese characters

Hlai languages → hasWritingSystem → Chinese characters ⓘ

Shuāngshí Jié → writingSystemOfName → Chinese characters ⓘ

this entity surface form: Traditional Chinese characters

Chengdu–Chongqing dialect group → hasWritingSystem → Chinese characters ⓘ

Hou → transliterationOf → Chinese characters ⓘ

this entity surface form: Chinese character 后