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=== Chinese characters used in Japanese and Korean ===
Within the context of the Chinese language, Chinese characters (known as [[hanzi]]) by and large represent words and morphemes rather than pure ideas; however, the adoption of Chinese characters by the Japanese and Korean languages (where they are known as [[kanji]] and [[hanja]], respectively) have resulted in some complications to this picture.

Many Chinese words, composed of Chinese morphemes, were borrowed into Japanese and Korean together with their character representations; in this case, the morphemes and characters were borrowed together. In other cases, however, characters were borrowed to represent native Japanese and Korean morphemes, on the basis of meaning alone. As a result, a single character can end up representing multiple morphemes of similar meaning but with different origins across several languages. Because of this, kanji and hanja are sometimes described as [[morphographic]] writing systems.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rogers |first1=H. |date=2005 |chapter= |editor-last= |editor-first= |title=Writing Systems: A Linguistic Approach |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |pages= |language=en}}</ref>