Dictionary

Chinese character en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. Any character used in the written form of several languages of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
   • 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. 1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, page 163:
   • Had it not been for the casual discovery in the year 1625 of a deeply buried 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. 1912, Arthur Henderson Smith, “Uplifting Leaders”, in The Uplift of China, →OCLC, page 117:
2. Any member of the species Cilix glaucata of moths.

Forms

Hypernyms

character

Hyponyms

Traditional Chinese character · Simplified Chinese character

Relateds

hanja · Traditional Chinese · Simplified Chinese · kanji

Synonyms

CJKV character · Hanzi · moonrunes · CJK character · Han character · sinograph · sinogram

Translations (83)

vi Hán tự (CJKV character) · ga Hansaí (CJKV character) · fi kiinalainen kirjoitusmerkki (CJKV character) · ar هَانْزِي (CJKV character) · mk кинески знак (CJKV character) · za sawgun (CJKV character) · nan-hbl 漢字 /汉字 (CJKV character) · sh kineski karakter (CJKV character) · es letras chinas (CJKV character) · is kínverskt tákn (CJKV character) · vi chữ Nho (CJKV character) · sv hanzi (CJKV character) · cmn 國字 /国字 (CJKV character) · th อักษรจีน (CJKV character) · ro caracter chinezesc (CJKV character) · yue 字 (CJKV character) · bg хан йерогли́ф (CJKV character) · tr Çince yazı karakteri (CJKV character) · wuu 漢字 /汉字 (CJKV character) · fr sinogramme (CJKV character) · da kinesisk tegn (CJKV character) · cmn 中國字 /中国字 (CJKV character) · te చైనీస్ లిపి (CJKV character) · ru кита́йское письмо́ (CJKV character) · es carácter chino (CJKV character) · th ฮั่นจื้อ (CJKV character) · nan-hbl 汉字 (CJKV character) · gan 漢字 /汉字 (CJKV character) · dng ханзы (CJKV character) · ar هَانْزِي (CJKV character) · id Hanzi (CJKV character) · fr caractère chinois (CJKV character) · ro caracter chinez (CJKV character) · fa حرف چینی (CJKV character) · yue 漢字 /汉字 (CJKV character) · nl Chinees teken (CJKV character) · hu kínai karakter (CJKV character) · uk кита́йська писе́мність (CJKV character) · gl carácter chinés (CJKV character) · ga carachtar Sínise (CJKV character) · de chinesisches Zeichen (CJKV character) · ta சீன எழுத்துமுறை (CJKV character) · ryu 漢字 (CJKV character) · sh кинески карактер (CJKV character) · bg кита́йски йерогли́ф (CJKV character) · ru ханьцзы́ (CJKV character) · vi chữ Hán (CJKV character) · es caracter chino (CJKV character) · ar طَابِع صِينِيّ (CJKV character) · cdo 漢字 /汉字 (CJKV character) · ar رَمْز صِينِيّ (CJKV character) · ja 漢字 (CJKV character) · pl znak pisma chińskiego (CJKV character) · tr hanzi (CJKV character) · pt caractere chinês (CJKV character) · hak 漢字 /汉字 (CJKV character) · yue 唐字 (CJKV character) · vi chữ Nôm (CJKV character) · ru кита́йская пи́сьменность (CJKV character) · id aksara Tionghoa (CJKV character) · mn ханз (CJKV character) · ko 한자 (CJKV character) · mk ханце (CJKV character) · mn хятад ханз (CJKV character) · sv kinesiska tecken (CJKV character) · it carattere cinese (CJKV character) · eo ĉina signo (CJKV character) · hy հիերոգլիֆ (CJKV character) · de chinesisches Schriftzeichen (CJKV character) · hu kínai írásjegy (CJKV character) · ru кита́йская гра́мота (CJKV character) · fr kanji (CJKV character) · fr hanzi (CJKV character) · my တရုတ်စာလုံ (CJKV character) · ms Aksara Cina (CJKV character) · ar حَرْف صِينِيّ (CJKV character) · ms Hanzi (CJKV character) · tr Çince karakter (CJKV character) · cmn 漢字 /汉字 (CJKV character) · hi चीनी चरित्र (CJKV character) · fa حرف هان (CJKV character) · ru кита́йский иеро́глиф (CJKV character) · de Hanzi (CJKV character)