0103 - 字[자] - 글자, 문자 - letter, character, word

The Story [이야기] :

• This is a pictophonetic character.  "Under a roof" 宀 suggests the meaning, while 子[자] suggests the sound.  Inside the confines of the palace 宀, the Crown Prince 子 is learning "characters".

Stroke Order [획순] :

New Vocabulary [새로운 단어] :

글자 [글字] - a letter; a character; an ideography
한자 [漢字] - a Chinese character [ideograph]
팔자 [八字] - destiny; fate; one's lot; one's doom; one's star; fortune; luck
십자 [十字] - a cross
자모 [字母] - (1) an alphabet; a letter; a syllabic, (2) a matrix (pl. -trices); a printing type
정자 [正字] - a correct letter; an unsimplified character
국자 [國字] - the national script; Korean characters
로마자 [로마字] - the Roman alphabet
백십자 [白十字] - the white cross

 

Example Sentences [예문] :

中國에서는 漢字가 하나의 통一力이 되어있다.
The Chinese ideographs are a unifying force in China.

마 大통령의 姓씨는 漢字로 “말(馬)”을 의미한다.
President Ma's surname in Chinese means “horse”.

한자 [漢字] - Chinese characters