#Is it acceptable to use hanja in writing nowadays?

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median lance
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I started learning Korean a little while ago and because of my previous exposure to the languages that use CJK-Ideograms I'm really tempted to use hanja in writing (it also makes memorising vocabulary and reading easier for me), so I would like to know if texts in mixed script would be understood by contemporary speakers and if there are any social implications I need to be aware of.

royal zodiac
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Hanja can be used mostly on academic or journalistic writing and usually has a purpose like to make clear which meaning of a word is being used, or it is a hanja which is written often and easily recognizable like 月

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Basically you can’t just go around replacing any word with its hanja representation

median lance
royal zodiac
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Although hanja is taught in schools, like English not everyone is going to know a lot of characters

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More just the ones used in everyday

median lance
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Somehting like this

royal zodiac
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Yes definitely not

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I’m sure people who have studied it more could but average person probably wouldn’t understand

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It’s just not used like that anymore