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Hanzi

Literal Translation
The Chinese characters — the origin of all three East Asian character systems. Logographic symbols where each character represents a syllable carrying meaning. Mainland China uses Simplified characters (introduced 1950s); Taiwan and Hong Kong use Traditional characters.