汉字(拼音:hàn zì,注音符号:ㄏㄢˋ ㄗˋ),又称中文、中国字,别称方块字,是汉语的记录符号,属于表意文字的词素音节文字。世界上最古老的文字之一,已有六千多年的历史。在形体上逐渐由图形变为笔画,象形变为象征,复杂变为简单;在造字原则上从表形、表意到形声。除极个别汉字外(如瓩、兛、兣、呎、嗧等),都是一个汉字一个音节。
Chinese characters (pinyin: hàn zì, phonetic symbols: ㄏㄢˋ ㄗˋ), also known as Chinese, Chinese characters, nicknamed square characters, are Chinese recording symbols, and belong to morphological syllables of ideographic characters. One of the oldest characters in the world, with a history of more than 6,000 years. The form gradually changes from graphics to strokes, pictograms to symbols, and complexity to simplicity; in principle, characters are made from form, ideogram, to pictophony. Except for a few Chinese characters (such as 瓩, 兛, 兣, ft, 嗧, etc.), each Chinese character has one syllable.