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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary

汉字 [hànzì]
  1. 1. noun [pl] Chinese characters

Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

汉字 [hànzì]
  1. 1. Chinese character
    汉字改革
    reform of Chinese characters
    汉字简化方案
    the Scheme for Simplifying Chinese Characters
    汉字注音
    phonetic annotation of Chinese characters
汉字 [hànzì]
  1. 1. [Linguistics] Chinese writing

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

汉字 [hànzì]
  1. 1. 记录汉语的文字,是世界上最古老的文字之一。属于表意文字系统,一般一个汉字代表一个音节。

Examples

很多汉字是由另一个汉字孳乳而来。
Many Chinese characters are derived from other Chinese characters.
汉字简化方案
the Scheme for Simplifying Chinese Characters
照汉语拼音方案拼写汉字
transliterate Chinese characters into the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet
汉字的形体
the form of Chinese characters
相传,中国的汉字是仓颉发明的。
It is said that Cang Jie created the Chinese writing system.
这张纸上的草体是修改过的汉字读音。
The handwritten characters on this piece of paper are the corrected pronunciations of those Chinese characters.
这些汉字都是独体字,比较好辨认。
These are all single characters and are easy to identify.
河南安阳,是现今发现最早的汉字发源地。
According to archeological evidence, Anyang in Henan Province is the birthplace of the Chinese writing system.

Word Decomposition


[hàn]
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[zì]

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