A Chinese character or Han character ( ; ; ) is a
logogram used in writing
Chinese,
Japanese, sometimes
Korean, and formerly
Vietnamese. The number of Chinese characters contained in the
Kangxi dictionary is approximately 47,035, although a large number of these are rarely-used variants accumulated throughout history. Studies carried out in
China have shown that full literacy requires a knowledge of between three and four thousand characters.
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"Hanzi" means "Chinese character" in Chinese. In some cases, Chinese characters are transcribed with other Chinese characters.
Enter the romanisation for for a syllable in Mandarin Chinese according to Pinyin or Wade-Giles, and this glossary will give you the corresponding Hanzi-characters!
Further reading:
Bopomofo,
Chinese phonetics,
Pinyin,
Wade-Giles,
Zhuyin 
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