한자

hanja · [한짜]

Chinese characters

nounIntermediate

Meanings

  1. Chinese charactersChinese unique characters created in China and being used today in the country.

Written Forms

한자Hangul
漢字Hanja

Examples from Lessons (3)

This is because a large portion of Korean vocabulary comes from Chinese characters.

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그래도 한자 규칙을 알면 공부하기가 훨씬 수월해질 거예요.

Still, if you learn the rules for these characters, studying will become much easier.

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So, even knowing just a little bit of Chinese characters makes studying less tedious.

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Grammar in These Examples

Korean definitions, pronunciations and learner levels are from the Basic Korean Dictionary (한국어기초사전) by the National Institute of Korean Language, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 KR.

Filtered, grouped by headword, and reformatted by Bubblegum. Definitions and translations are not rewritten. Example sentences come from Bubblegum lessons.

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