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The Vietnamese alphabet is a Latin-based modern writing script for the Vietnamese language. It has spelling conventions derived from the orthography of Romance languages such as Portuguese, Italian, a
A page from Alexandre de Rhodes' 1651 dictionary
Chữ Hán
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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
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…literature, government papers, scholarly works and religious scripture were all written in Literary Chinese (漢文, Hán văn) while indigenous writing with chữ Hán started around the ninth century. In the 12th century, several Vietnamese words began to be written in chữ Nôm, which was based on Chinese characters…
![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.