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HSK
character / script / writing / written language / writing style / phraseology / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
pictogram / hieroglyph
Japanese-style emoticon, e.g. (⇀‸↼‶)
phonetic alphabet / alphabetic writing system
cuneiform (Babylonian script)
reform of the writing system
China Japan Korea (CJK) unified ideographs / Unihan
paleography
philology
literary inquisition / official persecution of intellectuals for their writing
word processing
oracle script / oracle bone character (an early form of Chinese script)
text file
dead language / indecipherable script
hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet; Korean letters
the alphabet / latin letters
expert on writing systems
shallow orthography (governed by simple rules)
text-only (webpage, slide etc)
emoji
ideograph / ideographical writing system
initial / first letter of word (in Latin script)


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