Han Hanzi

Han Hanzi (漢字那華; Hanzi na Han) is the Han term for. More specifically, it refers to Chinese characters that are assigned Han pronunciations and meanings, and are incorporated into the written language, alongside, an that had developed alongside it. Since Han Hanzi has never underwent any major reforms, it is almost identical to traditional Chinese. This is in contrast to other contemporary Sinitic scripts which have been heavily simplified and therefore use less strokes than their Han Hanzi counterparts.

Initially developed as a vernacular script following the prohibition of during the Southern Han dynasty, the Instructions for the Adoption of the Han Vernacular, and the accompanying Zhenmu Dictionary (which established the proper pronunciation, usage and stroke patterns of Chinese characters used within both Han Hokkien and Han itself), both documents promulgated by the Zhenmu Emperor, led to the both the orthographical, phonetic, and grammatical standardization and codification of the Han language. While Han Hanzi was used by the elite, middle-class literati preferred to use Zhuyin, especially within informal texts.

Like Chinese Hanzi, each character may have multiple readings and meaning, which could be determined through context or syntactic placement. Since each character is assigned a Han reading (barring Hokkien, Cantonese, and Mandarin loanwords), the utility of found within many Chinese characters for their phonetic and semantic components has been lost. Therefore, the utility of radicals found in many Chinese characters for their and  components has been lost. Furthermore, Han Hanzi has repurposed several characters (mainly obsolete ones) and reassigned them different readings, mainly morphemes, due to the tendencies of Han.