Chinese Characters and Derivatives
- Chinese
- Guanhua (Mandarin)
- Wu which includes Shanghainese
- Yue (Cantonese)
- Min which includes Taiwanese
- Xiang
- Hakka
- Gan
- Jin from Mandarin
- Huizhou from Wu
- Ping partly from Cantonese
- Minority languages in China
- Dong
- Bai (obsolete)
- Miao (obsolete)
- Zhuang, with Zhuang logograms (obsolete)
- Japanese (kanji plus kana derivative)
- Korean (hanja) (obsolete; used in academic texts and newspapers)
- Vietnamese (Chữ nho and Chữ nôm) (used in historic or academic texts, or for artistic or aesthetic purposes, but in general use virtually extinct)
- Extinct languages
- Khitan, written in Khitan scripts
- Jurchen, written in Jurchen script
- Tangut, written in Tangut script
Read more about this topic: List Of Languages By Writing System
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