CJKV Information Processing, 2nd Edition

Non-Chinese Ideographs

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Hanguksik hanja examplesTable 2-42.

Hanguksik hanja Reading Meaning

 42-65 46

 gal

Used in personal names

 51-44 7553

 dap

paddy, wet eld

 52-44 46

 dol

Used in personal and place names

 56-37 551

 mal

Used in place names

 64-54 9425

 seon

Used in place names

 72-4 77

 o

Used in place names

󰄦 79-32 5

 jeom

mountain pass

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Compare this hanguksik hanja with the (Japanese) kokuji a.  (tōge) in Table 2-40. I nd it fascinating that Japan and Korea independently

coined their own ideograph meaning “mountain pass.”

Only one hanguksik hanja,  ( dap), is known to be included in Korea’s standard set of

1,800 hanja called Hanmun Gyoyukyong Gicho Hanja. is hanguksik hanja is not in the

middle school subset of 900 hanja, though.

Vietnamese-Made Ideographs—Ch Nôm

Unlike Japanese and Korean, in which non-Chinese ideographs are used together with

genuine ideographs—a sort of mixing of scripts—Vietnamese has three distinct ways to

express its language through writing:

Latin script (called • Quốc ngữ)

Ideographs (called • chữ Hán)

Vietnamese-made ideographs (called • chữ Nôm)

Writing Vietnamese using ch Hán is considered equivalent to writing in Chinese, not

Vietnamese. Using Quc ng or ch Nôm is considered writing in Vietnamese, not

Chinese. For some ch Nôm characters, there is a corresponding ch Hán character wi ...