Kanji vs Hanzi

[x1337magex]

Hello all,

I am ever so slightly curious about the differances between kanji and hanzi. Actually, i am a litle more curious than i lead you to believe ^_^ but I was wondering if any of you knew or if you could recommend a website that would explain it well. Thank you!!

[hungryhotei]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanzi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji

[kyashi]

dude whats hanzi?

[Sakana_12345]

A Chinese character (Traditional Chinese: 漢字; Simplified Chinese: 汉字; pinyin: Hànzì) is a logogram used in writing Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and formerly Vietnamese.

[Sakana]

Besides pronunciation, the main difference is the way of writing them. Except for in Taiwan and Hong Kong, they use a simplified version of the same characters, probably to make them easier to learn and use.

Example-

漢字：馬
汉子：马

The hanzi is a bit simpler that the kanji, right?

As far as pronunciation goes, despite differences between the languages and changes over time, quite a few of them sound similar, and retain a basically the same meaning.

漢字：馬 - uma 漢字：在 - zai
汉子：马 - ma (falling/rising tone) 汉子：在 - zai (falling tone)

And there are alot more like that. Actualy, the articles above probably can explaim that much better than I can.


你想学习汉语马。因为汉语有用，有意思极了，所以你应该试试学。如果你会汉语懂得很好，你就可薄逑?#35821;看得懂一点。

我写的子对不对。

Sakana_12345先生,你偷我的名字了!