Your initial thought was partially right. Though it's not used as often these days, Korean does have hanja[1] which uses Chinese characters. [1] https://en.wik

Your initial thought was partially right. Though it's not used as often these days, Korean does have hanja[1] which uses Chinese characters. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanja https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanja