Han
Logographic writing system
Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture. Wikipedia
Child systems: Bopomofo; Jurchen script; Kana; Khitan small script; Nüshu; Tangut script; Yi script
Languages: Chinese; Japanese; Korean; Vietnamese; Zhuang; (among others)
Parent systems: (Proto-writing): Chinese characters
Unicode alias: Han
Unicode range: U+4E00–U+9FFF CJK Unified Ideographs (full list)
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How many characters are there? Altogether there are over 50,000 characters, though a comprehensive modern dictionary will rarely list over 20,000 in use.