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What does it mean in Chinese?

What does 汉字 mean?

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汉字 hànzì

Chinese character

Its characters

  1. 汉 hàn Han Chinese
  2. 字 zì character

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这个汉字怎么读? How do you read this Chinese character?

我写了五个汉字。

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