| Han character (From the Han dynasty, 206 B.C.E to 25 C.E.) One of the set of common to Chinese (where they are called "hanzi"), Japanese (where they are called ), and Korean (where they are called ). Han characters are generally described as "ideographic", i.e., picture-writing; but see the reference below. Modern Korean, Chinese and Japanese may represent a given Han character as somewhat different glyphs. However, in the formulation of , these differences were , in order to conserve the number of necessary for all of . This unification is referred to as "Han Unification", with the resulting character repertoire sometimes referred to as "Unihan". {Unihan reference at the Unicode Consortium (http://charts.unicode.org/unihan.html)} [John DeFrancis, "The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy", University of Hawaii Press, 1984]. (1998-10-18) |
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