The
Chinese family of scripts are writing systems descended from the Chinese
Oracle Bone Script and used for a variety of languages in East Asia. They include
logosyllabic systems such as the
Chinese script itself (or
hanzi, now in two forms,
traditional and
simplified), and adaptations to other languages, such as
Kanji (
Japanese),
Hanja (
Korean),
Chữ nôm (
Vietnamese) and
sawndip (
Zhuang). More divergent are
Tangut,
Khitan large script, and its offspring
Jurchen, as well as
Yi script and possibly Korean
Hangul, which were inspired by Chinese although not directly descended from it. The partially deciphered
Khitan small script may be another. In addition, various phonetic scripts descend from Chinese characters, of which the best known are the various
kana syllabaries, the
zhuyin semi-syllabary,
nüshu, and some influence on hangul.