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ModernActiveISO 15924: Hani

Chinese Characters (Hanzi)

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The world's longest continuously used writing system with ~50,000 characters. Profoundly influenced writing across all of East Asia for millennia.

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What does it look like?
Representative glyphs and samples

◈Sample Glyphs(click to copy)

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Origins & History
Origins, history and genealogy

✦Key Features

The world's oldest continuously used writing system. ~50,000 characters exist; 3,000–4,000 suffice for daily use. ~70,000 encoded in Unicode.
↔Writing direction: Left to Right (LTR)
⌨Keyboard input via IME. Standard Chinese Characters (Hanzi) keyboard layout supported.

U+Unicode Information

Code Block Range
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Total Characters
50,000
Sample Code Points(click to copy)
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How is it used?
Glyph evolution, keyboard & Unicode

◎Glyph Evolution

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⌨Keyboard Layout

Hanzi Pinyin Input (Simplified Chinese)
Type Pinyin (romanization) to convert to Chinese characters. e.g. zhong → 中
qq
ww
ee
rr
tt
yy
uu
ii
oo
pp
aa
ss
dd
ff
gg
hh
jj
kk
ll
zz
xx
cc
vv
bb
nn
mm
space
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💡 Type Pinyin → select from IME candidate list. zh/ch/sh are retroflex. Tone numbers: ma1=mā, ma2=má, ma3=mǎ, ma4=mà.
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Where is it used?
Languages, countries and users

🌐Usage

Languages
Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien etc.JapaneseKorean (Hanja)Vietnamese (Chữ Nôm)
Countries
ChinaTaiwanHong Kong마카오SingaporeJapanSouth Korea
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Learn More
Unicode blocks and external links

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