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    Hanja (Korean: 한자; Hanja: 漢字, Korean pronunciation: [ha(ː)ntɕ͈a]), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters used to write the Korean language...
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    (Korean: 국한문혼용; Hanja: 國漢文混用) is a form of writing the Korean language that uses a mixture of the Korean alphabet or hangul (한글) and hanja (漢字, 한자), the...
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  • Basic Hanja for educational use (Korean: 한문 교육용 기초 한자, romanized: hanmun gyoyukyong gicho Hanja) are a subset of Hanja defined in 1972 (and subsequently...
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  • Sino-Korean vocabulary or Hanja-eo (Korean: 한자어; Hanja: 漢字語) refers to Korean words of Chinese origin. Sino-Korean vocabulary includes words borrowed directly...
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    Hanja was inadequate to write Korean and that caused its very restricted use; Hangul was designed to either aid in reading Hanja or to replace Hanja entirely...
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  • Hanja Kochansky is a Croatian writer and actress. A refugee to Italy during the Second World War, in 1948 she went to Johannesburg as an emigrant. In...
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    Korean terms for names exist. For full names, seongmyeong (Korean: 성명; Hanja: 姓名), seongham (성함; 姓銜), or ireum (이름) are commonly used. When a Korean...
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  • meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 20 hanja with the reading "tae" and 39 hanja with the reading "yeon"...
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  • sometimes distinct from their simplified Chinese counterparts. Korean hanja, still used to a certain extent in South Korea, remain virtually identical...
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  • based on the hanja used to write it. There are 43 hanja with the reading yeong on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered...
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    Classical Chinese Hanja characters that were difficult to learn and did not fit the Korean language well. South Korea still uses some Chinese Hanja characters...
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  • Myung (section Hanja)
    differs based on the hanja used to write it. The surname Myeong is derived from the Chinese surname Ming, written with the hanja 明, meaning "bright" or...
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  • based on the hanja used to write it. There are 17 hanja with the reading seung on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered...
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    Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, Chinese characters are known as kanji, hanja, and chữ Hán respectively. Writing traditions also emerged for some of the...
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    dynasty. It was an attempt to increase literacy by serving as a complement to Hanja, which were Chinese characters used to write Literary Chinese in Korea by...
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    Korean traditional festivals (Korean: 한국전통축제; Hanja: 韓國傳統祝祭) are the national and local festivals historically celebrated by Koreans. Seollal (New Years...
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    Johanna Rika Hermanna "Hanja" Maij-Weggen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦɑɲaː maːi ˈʋɛɣə(n)]; née Weggen; born 29 December 1943) is a retired Dutch politician...
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    Korean War South Korean name Hangul 6·25 전쟁 or 한국 전쟁 Hanja 六二五戰爭 or 韓國戰爭 North Korean name Chosŏn'gŭl 조국해방전쟁 Hancha 祖國解放戰爭...
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  • Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU or Seongdae, Korean: 성균관대학교; Hanja: 成均館大學校) is a private research university with campuses in Seoul and Suwon, South Korea...
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  • Its meaning depends on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 34 hanja with the reading "ye" and 17 hanja with the reading "rin" on...
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  • Hwan (name) (section Hanja)
    names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. As a family name, Hwan is written with only one hanja, the Sino-Korean name of the Sapindus...
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  • Chun-hwa (section Hanja)
    meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are four hanja with the reading "chun" and 15 hanja with the reading "hwa"...
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  • Sang-woo (section Hanja)
    meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 35 hanja with the reading "sang" and 41 hanja with the reading "woo" on...
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  • meaning depends on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 35 hanja with the reading "hyun" and 43 hanja with the reading "jin" on...
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    Han-Han Dae Sajeon is the generic term for Korean hanja-to-hangul dictionaries. There are several such dictionaries from different publishers. The most...
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    Thomas Hyunsu Edman (Korean: 곽현수; Hanja: 郭賢洙; born May 9, 1995) is an American professional baseball utility player for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major...
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  • hanja used to write each syllable of the name, however the most common way of writing this name in hanja is 未來, meaning "future". There are 33 hanja with...
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  • Su-bin differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 67 hanja with the reading "su" and 25 hanja with the reading "bin" on...
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  • composed of two single-syllable Sino-Korean morphemes each written with one hanja, Ha-neul is an indigenous Korean name: a single two-syllable word meaning...
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  • Ichadon (Hanja: 異次頓), also known as Geochadon (Hanja: 居次頓), or by his courtesy name, Yeomchok (Hanja: 厭觸), or Yeomdo, (Hanja: 厭都), was a Buddhist monk...
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