letter / symbol / character / word / CL: 個｜个 / courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China

name (of a person or thing) / CL: 個｜个

numeral / digit / number / figure / amount / digital (electronics etc) / CL: 個｜个

character / script / writing / written language / writing style / phraseology / CL: 個｜个

(financial) deficit / red letter

simplified Chinese character, as opposed to traditional Chinese character 繁體字｜繁体字

traditional Chinese character

Chinese character / CL: 個｜个 / Japanese: kanji / Korean: hanja / Vietnamese: hán tự

cross road / cross-shaped / crucifix / the character ten

Red Cross

to write characters

the character 8 or 八 / birthdate characters used in fortune-telling

to sign (one's name) / signature

gold lettering / gold characters

incorrect character / typo (in Chinese text)

to type

single Chinese character / word (in a foreign language)

to learn to read

braille

to create Chinese characters / cf Six Methods of forming Chinese characters 六書｜六书

T-shaped

character with two or more readings

new character (in textbook) / character that is unfamiliar or not yet studied

fortune telling by unpicking Chinese characters

literate / knowing how to read

wrongly written or mispronounced character

Chinese character (Hanzi) / the native script used to write a nation's language

to spell / spelling

diction; enunciation / to pronounce the words correctly (in opera)

to bite words and chew characters (idiom); punctilious about minutiae of wording

ancient character / archaic form of a Chinese character

obscenity

(printing) type; movable letters

to pronounce (clearly or otherwise) / to enunciate

Shuowen Jiezi, the original Han dynasty Chinese character dictionary with 10,516 entries, authored by Xu Shen 許慎｜许慎 in 2nd century

(written) in black and white

mispronounced or wrongly written character

to write an inscription (poem, remark, autograph etc) / an inscription

nonstandard form of a Chinese character

to correct an erroneously written character / regular script (calligraphy) / standard form (of a character or spelling)

to practice writing characters

to craft one's words

literate / a cultured person

to have one's fortune read / system of fortune telling based on a person's date and time of birth, according to 干支 (sexagenary cycle)

familiar words / known Chinese character

obscure word / unfamiliar character

numeral / digit / counter

see 通假字

erroneous character / typographical error

braille

to use letters / to use words / diction

nonstandard form of a Chinese character

to practice writing characters

abbreviated character / simplified character

word formation

betrothed

to write from memory

to spell / to compose words

pictogram (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character derived from a picture / sometimes called hieroglyph

(typography) ligature

to tattoo

Arabic numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

movable type

literary name (an alternative name of a person stressing a moral principle) / courtesy name

original form of a Chinese character

oracle script / oracle bone character (an early form of Chinese script)

pictogram / hieroglyph

phonetic alphabet / alphabetic writing system

character having several readings and meanings

cuneiform (Babylonian script)

simplified Chinese character

Japanese-style emoticon, e.g. (⇀‸↼‶)

in a row / in a line

(orthography) consistent words (e.g. "dean", "bean", and "lean", where "-ean" is pronounced the same in each case) / consistent characters (e.g. 搖｜摇, 遙｜遥 and 謠｜谣, which share a phonetic component that reliably indicates that the pronunciation of the character is yáo)

(orthography) inconsistent words (e.g. "through", "bough" and "rough", where "-ough" is not pronounced the same in each case) / inconsistent characters (e.g. 流, 梳 and 毓, which are pronounced differently from each other even though they all have the same notional phonetic component)

illiterate

China Japan Korea (CJK) unified ideographs / Unihan

abbreviated name of an entity (e.g. 皖政, a short name for 安徽省人民政府) / code name / (old) pronoun

exception(s)

loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / character acquiring meanings by phonetic association / also called phonetic loan

cloze (loanword) (Tw)

variant of 畫十字｜画十字

character with opposite meaning / antonym / opposite characters

a Chinese character formed by combining existing elements - i.e. a combined ideogram 會意｜会意 or radical plus phonetic 形聲｜形声

synonym

Chinese character that is pronounced the same (as another character)

Vietnam characters (like Chinese characters but native to Vietnam)

unique compound

Gwoyeu Romatzyh, a romanization system for Chinese devised by Y.R. Chao and others in 1925-26

stem compound

everyday words

sans serif (typography)

phono-semantic compound character

(literary) (of a young lady) to be awaiting betrothal

the alphabet / latin letters

ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character indicating an idea, such as up and down / also known as self-explanatory character

command name

(cognitive psychology) probe letter

to have difficulty remembering how to write Chinese characters

numeral / digit / number / figure