Three types of writing system:

Comparison of the writing systems of the three East Asian Languages

English	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Chinese	日 rì	月 yuè	火 huǒ	水 shuǐ	木 mù	金 jīn	土 tǔ
Japanese	にち nichi	げつ getsu	か ka	すい tsui	もく moku	きん kin	ど do
Korean	일 il	월 wǒl	화 hwa	수 su	목 mok	금 kǔm	토 tho

[Note: The Korea vowels ǒ and ǔ have a lip spreading of the corresponding vowel.]

 

• Ideograms (logographic writing, word writing): Chinese
  

  一, 日 , 月 , 越 , 火 , 花 , 水 , 手 , 木 , 目 , 金 , 今 , 土 , 兎

  
  

  Chinese Text: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/chinese.htm

  

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• Syllabic symbols (syllabary): Japanese:

  
  

  Japanese Text: http://www.bodymap.org/ap/images/jpnblurb.jpg

  

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• Phonemic (or phonetic) symbols (Alphabetic writing): Korean
  

  일 (ㅇ+ㅣ[i]+ㄹ[l])

  월 (ㅇ+ㅝ[wo]+ㄹ[l])

  화 (ㅎ[h]+ㅘ[wa])

  수 (ㅅ[s]+ㅜ[u])

  목 (ㅁ[m]+ㅗ[o]+ㄱ[k])

  금 (ㄱ[k]+ㅡ[u]+ㅁ[m])

  토 (ㅌ[th]+ㅗ[o])

Korean Text:

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/korean.htm,

Korean Internet news