All languages combined word senses marked with topical category "Han characters"

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Total 90 word senses

• Chinese character (Noun) [English] Any character used in the written form of several languages of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
• Han character (Noun) [English] Synonym of Chinese character
• Hanzi (Noun) [English] Synonym of Chinese character (specifically in relation to Chinese)
• Simplified Chinese (Proper name) [English] Chinese written using the forms of Chinese characters introduced by the PRC as script reform. The characters are simplified (with a reduced number of strokes, etc.) compared to their pre-reform shapes.
• Traditional Chinese (Proper name) [English] Chinese written using the traditional form of Chinese characters, as opposed to Simplified Chinese (introduced by the PRC as script reform).
• chinês simplificado (Noun) [Portuguese] Simplified Chinese (Chinese written using simplified characters)
• chinês tradicional (Noun) [Portuguese] Traditional Chinese (Chinese written using traditional characters)
• krzaczek (Noun) [Polish] moonrunes (illegible characters; squiggle); Chinese characters
• stroke order (Noun) [English] the standard sequence in which a Chinese character is written in Chinese, Japanese or Korean writing
• 一字 (Noun) [Japanese] one letter, one character
• 丸ゴシック体 (Noun) [Japanese] rounded sans-serif
• 丸文字 (Noun) [Japanese] a highly rounded feminine handwriting style born in the 1970s
• 人名用漢字 (Noun) [Japanese] kanji approved for use in names registered in the 戸籍(こせき) (koseki, “family register”)
• 会意 (Noun) [Japanese] compound indicatives
• 俗字 (Noun) [Chinese] Hanzi variant that is widespread but not orthodox
• 俗字 (Noun) [Japanese] a kanji variant that is widespread but not orthodox
• 傳承字形 (Noun) [Chinese] the (printed) form of Chinese characters based on traditional Ming typefaces, such as that of the Kangxi Dictionary, instead of handwritten forms
• 六書 (Noun) [Japanese] The six principles for composing Chinese script.
• 勘亭流 (Noun) [Chinese] Kantei-ryū
• 勘亭流 (Noun) [Japanese] Kantei-ryū, a type of 江戸文字(えどもじ) (Edo moji) usually associated with kabuki signage and characterized by thick, flowing, and rounded strokes
• 印刷標準字体 (Noun) [Japanese] standard form of a 表外漢字 (hyōgai kanji) used in printing; Publishing Standard Glyphs
• 又體 (Noun) [Chinese] variant form; alternative form of a Chinese character
• 口高 (Noun) [Japanese] the 高 character
• 和字 (Noun) [Japanese] Japanese kokuji
• 品字様 (Noun) [Japanese] Han character that is of 3 identical elements arranged in the style of the character 品
• 四角号碼 (Proper name) [Japanese] Four-Corner
• 国字 (Noun) [Japanese] kokuji (kanji invented outside of China)
• 基本區 (Proper name) [Chinese] CJK Unified Ideographs (the Unicode block whose range is U+4E00 to U+9FFF, as opposed to later extensions such as Extension A)
• 外字 (Noun) [Japanese] A character not included in a standard set of characters, such as JIS or Unicode. Often found in names of Japanese people and places.
• 字形 (Noun) [Japanese] the form or shape of a character that concerns only minor differences, such as how certain strokes or stroke combinations are drawn, reflecting calligraphic or regional differences; compare 字体 (jitai)
• 字源 (Noun) [Japanese] etymology of a Han character
• 字表 (Noun) [Chinese] character list
• 字解 (Noun) [Japanese] explanation of a kanji
• 孳乳字 (Noun) [Chinese] derivative Chinese character
• 常用外漢字 (Noun) [Japanese] kanji not approved for regular use
• 常用漢字 (Noun) [Japanese] kanji approved for regular use by the 文部科学省 (Monbu-kagaku-shō, “Japanese Ministry of Education”)
• 幽霊文字 (Noun) [Japanese] ghost character (kanji included in JIS X 0208 but of unknown origin)
• 形声 (Noun) [Japanese] One of the types of Han characters, containing those characters comprising a part that indicates the meaning, and a part that indicates the pronunciation.
• 怪字 (Noun) [Chinese] strange character
• 或體 (Noun) [Chinese] variant form; alternative form of a Chinese character
• 拡張新字体 (Noun) [Japanese] extended shinjitai (unofficial shinjitai)
• 指事 (Noun) [Japanese] ideogram, particularly in the sense of 六書 ideogram. One of the types of Han characters, containing those characters such as 上 (“above”) and 下 (“below”) that indicate an abstract idea with a non-arbitrary logogram.
• 教科書体 (Noun) [Japanese] a style reminiscent of 楷(かい)書(しょ)体(たい) (kaishotai) written using a pen, used in pedagogy
• 教育漢字 (Noun) [Japanese] the 1,026 kanji taught in primary school; a subset of 常用漢字(じょうようかんじ) (jōyō kanji)
• 新字 (Noun) [Japanese] "new characters": Synonym of 新字体 (shinjitai)
• 新字体 (Noun) [Japanese] shinjitai (a form of Japanese kanji used after 1947)
• 新字體 (Noun) [Chinese] shinjitai (a form of Japanese kanji used after 1947)
• 旧字 (Noun) [Japanese] "old characters": Synonym of 旧字体 (kyūjitai)
• 旧字体 (Noun) [Japanese] kyūjitai (traditional form of Japanese kanji used before 1947)
• 明朝体 (Noun) [Japanese] the Ming typographic style of East Asian scripts (Han, hangul, kana), equivalent to the Western serif style
• 書写体 (Noun) [Japanese] non-standard character forms (旧字体, 異体字, 変体仮名, etc.) used in calligraphy
• 有音無字 (Verb) [Chinese] to have a pronunciation but not a written form; to not be able to be written in Chinese characters
• 楷書体 (Noun) [Japanese] regular script-style
• 次様 (Noun) [Japanese] of lower calibre
• 正字 (Noun) [Chinese] standard or regular script
• 正字 (Noun) [Japanese] kyūjitai
• 正體字 (Noun) [Chinese] Chinese character (traditional or simplified) that conforms to an official or historical orthography
• 江戸文字 (Noun) [Japanese] "Edo characters", distinctive calligraphic (and later, typographic) styles that were born in the Edo period
• 江湖字體 (Noun) [Chinese] font with characters in a plebian hand
• 漢字 (Noun) [Japanese] kanji
• 生僻字 (Noun) [Chinese] esoteric Chinese character; rarely used Chinese character
• 生造字 (Noun) [Chinese] novel Han character, created as art, for neologisms, for dialects, or the like
• 画数 (Noun) [Japanese] number of strokes in a Chinese character
• 略字 (Noun) [Japanese] a colloquial, simplified form of a kanji
• 異体字 (Noun) [Japanese] variant Chinese character, variant kanji
• 異用字 (Noun) [Chinese] variant form; alternative form
• 異體字 (Noun) [Chinese] variant form; alternative form of a Chinese character
• 立崎 (Noun) [Japanese] A nickname for the 﨑 character, a variant of 崎.
• 簡体字 (Noun) [Japanese] Simplified Chinese character(s); Simplified Chinese
• 簡化字 (Noun) [Japanese] Simplified Chinese character(s); Simplified Chinese
• 簡易慣用字体 (Noun) [Japanese] variant kanji whose use in place of the 印刷標準字体 (insatsu hyōjun jitai) has been approved
• 繁体字 (Noun) [Japanese] Traditional Chinese character(s); Traditional Chinese
• 舊字形 (Noun) [Chinese] the (printed) form of Chinese characters based on traditional Ming typefaces, such as that of the Kangxi Dictionary, instead of handwritten forms
• 舊字體 (Noun) [Chinese] kyūjitai (traditional form of Japanese kanji used before 1947)
• 表外字 (Noun) [Japanese] Kanji characters outside of the jōyō kanji and jinmeiyō kanji lists. For example, 攪 and its shinjitai form, 撹.
• 表外漢字 (Noun) [Japanese] Kanji characters outside of the jōyō kanji and jinmeiyō kanji lists. For example, 攪.
• 規範字 (Noun) [Chinese] standardized Chinese characters that are used to write Simplified Chinese
• 規範字 (Noun) [Japanese] standardized Chinese characters that are used to write Simplified Chinese
• 親字 (Noun) [Japanese] the headword character of an entry in a Han character dictionary
• 親文字 (Noun) [Japanese] synonym of 親字 (oyaji, “Han character dictionary headword”)
• 象形 (Noun) [Japanese] pictogram, particularly in the sense of 六書 pictograms.
• 転注 (Noun) [Japanese] figurative extension of meaning
• 重文 (Noun) [Chinese] variant form; alternative form of a Chinese character
• 隸定 (Verb) [Chinese] to retranscribe an ancient Chinese character in a contemporary style
• 구결자 (Noun) [Korean] A hanja used in gugyeol.
• 국자 (Noun) [Korean] gukja (Han characters invented outside of China)
• 대표훈 (Noun) [Korean] a 훈 (訓, hun, “native meaning”) of a Chinese character by which the character is conventionally identified, e.g. in speech or in dictionaries (especially in reference to polysemous characters)
• はしご高 (Noun) [Japanese] a nickname for the 髙 character, a variant of 高
• ゲバ字 (Noun) [Japanese] A style of written kanji, encompassing an angular form and a set of ryakuji. It is politically associated with leftist student activism.
• ゴシック体 (Noun) [Japanese] the gothic typographic style of East Asian scripts (Han, hangul, kana), equivalent to the Western sans serif style

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