Hán → Nôm → Quốc ngữ
✍️ Scripts of Vietnam
How the Vietnamese wrote: a thousand years of chữ Hán, the homegrown chữ Nôm, then Latin-based Quốc ngữ. See real characters and how new ones fused idea with sound.
The three eras overlapped for centuries — Hán for administration, Nôm for literature, side by side. Nôm compound glyphs sit in Unicode CJK extension blocks that need special fonts (Nôm Na Tống…), so this page teaches their mechanics with diagrams instead of raw glyphs.