Written Vietnamese today uses the Latin script-based Vietnamese alphabet to represent native Vietnamese words, Vietnamese words which are of Chinese origin, and other foreign loanwords. Historically,
Bronze cash coin, 1st century AD with ancient Seal script
Vietnamese birth certificate in 1941 showing Vietnamese in two scripts, chữ Quốc ngữ and chữ Nôm.
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Chữ Hán are the Chinese characters that were used to write Literary Chinese and Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary in Vietnamese. They were officially used in Vietnam after the Red River Delta region was anne
History of writing in Vietnam
…Sino-Vietnamese), and other foreign loanwords. Historically, Vietnamese literature was written by scholars using a combination of Chinese characters (Hán) and original Vietnamese characters (Nôm). From 111 BC up to the 20th century, Vietnamese literature was written in Văn ngôn (Classical Chinese) using…
![Lĩnh Nam chích quái (嶺南摭怪) is a 14th-century Vietnamese semi-fictional work written in chữ Hán by Trần Thế Pháp [vi].](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/%E5%B6%BA%E5%8D%97%E6%91%AD%E6%80%AA%E5%88%97%E5%82%B3.jpg/500px-%E5%B6%BA%E5%8D%97%E6%91%AD%E6%80%AA%E5%88%97%E5%82%B3.jpg)
Lĩnh Nam chích quái (嶺南摭怪) is a 14th-century Vietnamese semi-fictional work written in chữ Hán by Trần Thế Pháp [vi].
History of the Loss of Vietnam (越南亡國史), is a Vietnamese book written in chữ Hán, written by Phan Bội Châu while he was in Japan. It was published by Liang Qichao, a leading Chinese nationalist revolutionary scholar then in Japan
A Vietnamese edict (1765) written in chữ Hán. It uses the Lệnh thư script.
A Vietnamese calligraphist practicing calligraphy written in chữ Hán during Tết.