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Jeff asked in Society & CultureLanguages · 9 years ago

What are Chinese characters called?

What's the word for chinese characters? I know when it's romanized is called pinyan. thx

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  • rebekkah hot as the sun
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    In Mandarin Chinese they're called hanzi. han4 zi

    When Romanized, the alphabet is called pinyin. pin1 yin1

  • hlavac
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    What Is Chinese Writing Called

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  • ?
    5 years ago

    If you pick to find out Chinese then you should know that Chinese language is without a doubt one of the hardest languages for westerners to find out, and up till now finding out to speak Chinese to a level of proficiency outdoors of the classroom setting has been nearly extremely hard but not if you decide on a program

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

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    Hanzi. Chinese characters. Written like 汉字 BTW romaji is Japanese. Romanized Chinese is called pinyin.

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  • Sophronia
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    chinese characters called

  • aida
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    I think the word you're looking for is "ideographs" or "ideograms"--symbols representing entire words, but not necessarily depicting them, as hieroglyphs do.

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