1) Chinese character 2) Han characters 3) Korean writing system 4) Writing system 
Although a phonetic Korean alphabet, now known as hangul, had been created by a team of scholars commissioned in the 1440s by King Sejong the Great, it did not come into widespread use until the late 19th and early 20th century. Thus, until that time it was necessary to be fluent in reading and writing hanja in order to be literate in Korean, as t...
The Korean term for characters derived from Chinese.