English
hanja
Hanja comes from Korean 한자(漢字).
- Koreanmodern한자(漢字)漢字
- Englishtodayhanja
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Koreanmodern한자(漢字)漢字
- Englishtodayhanja
The story
Borrowed from Korean 한자(漢字) (hanja), from Middle Chinese 漢字 (MC xanH dziH, “Chinese character”, literally “Han Chinese + character”).
Every English word from Korean 한자(漢字)
Today it means
noun The Han character script used to write Korean, particularly in classical literature.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Korean 한자(漢字) / hanja