Chinese character

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of the set of symbols used to write Chinese, each of which represents a single, usually monosyllabic word or morpheme.
• noun Any of these symbols used to write the words, morphemes, or sounds of other languages, as one of the kanji of Japanese.

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• noun Any character used in the written form of several languages of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam