hanja (Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese and incorporated into the Korean language with Korean pronunciation) · Chinese character; Han character (any character used in the written form of several languages of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam) · written Chinese language
eş: 한자어, 한문
köken: Sino-Korean word from 漢字, from 漢 (“Han Chinese”) + 字 (“character”), with compound/genitive tensing applied.
Borrowed from Cantonese 漢字 /汉字 (hon³ zi⁶, “Han Chinese character”), with possible influence from Hokkien 漢字 /汉字 (hàn-jī, “Han Chinese character”), from Middle Chinese 漢 (xàn, “Han dynasty; China”) + 字 (dzì, “[written] character”). Compare Mandarin 漢字 /汉字 (hànzì), Japanese 漢字 (kanji), Korean 한자(漢字) (hanja). Doublet of hanja, hanzi and kanji.