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What is Chữ Nôm?
Chữ Nôm is a historical writing system used to write Vietnamese with characters adapted from the broader Sinitic writing tradition. It appears in poetry, religious texts, stories, administrative traces, and local records.
Learning it today is less about nostalgia than access: it helps readers approach older Vietnamese voices, understand vocabulary layers, and see how scripts carry culture across time.
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