List of Languages By Writing System - Chinese Characters and Derivatives

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

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