한자

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hanja (Chinese characters used in Korean)

📜 한자 = 漢 (Han, China) + 字 (character): Han characters

Each syllable is the Korean reading of a Chinese character: 한 from 漢 (Han dynasty, China) and 자 from 字 (written character). It is the same word as Chinese hanzi and Japanese kanji, just read the Korean way.

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