Script - Han

Han is a script value representing the traditional writing system used for the Chinese language, encompassing both Simplified and Traditional character forms. It covers the vast set of ideographic characters historically used across China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, though in the Unicode standard it specifically denotes the Chinese-origin characters as distinct from Japanese kana or Korean Hangul. The Han script includes tens of thousands of logographs, each encoding a word or morpheme, and it is one of the oldest continuously used writing systems in the world. Its characters are structurally composed of strokes, radicals, and phonetic components, allowing for semantic and phonetic clues within a single glyph. This value is typically applied to characters in the CJK Unified Ideographs blocks, as well as extension and compatibility regions, ensuring consistent identification of Chinese-derived ideographs regardless of regional stylistic variations.