Hanzi (Characters)
Hanzi (汉字, hànzì) — Chinese characters — are the writing system of Chinese. Unlike alphabets, which map symbols to sounds, Chinese characters are logographic: each character represents a morpheme (a meaningful unit), with pronunciation encoded separately (sometimes within the character itself, sometimes not at all). Chinese is the only major living writing system that is logographic. Learning it requires explicit study in a way that learning, say, Spanish script does...