| − | '''Chinese characters''' ([[Traditional Chinese]], [[Kanji]], and [[Hanja]]: 漢字; [[Simplified Chinese]]: 汉字; [[Hanyu Pinyin]]: Hànzì) are semanto-phonetic [[glyph|glyphs]] that are used in written [[Chinese]]. They are commonly used in [[Japanese language|Japanese]], alongside with the Japanese syllabaries [[hiragana]] and [[katakana]]. However in [[Korean language| Korean]], [[Hangul]] is used and Chinese characters are only used for names and to distinguish ambiguous homonyms. | + | '''Chinese characters''' ([[Traditional Chinese]], [[Kanji]], and [[Hanja]]: 漢字; [[Simplified Chinese]]: 汉字; [[Hanyu Pinyin]]: Hànzì) are semanto-phonetic [[glyph|glyphs]] that are used in written [[Chinese]]. They are commonly used in [[Japanese language|Japanese]], alongside with the Japanese syllabaries [[hiragana]] and [[katakana]]. However in [[Korean language| Korean]], [[Hangul]] is used and Chinese characters are rarely used to distinguish names and ambiguous homonyms. |