Definitions For Kanji

Noun

KANJI (plural kanji or kanjis) (uncountable) The system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters. : Japanese is written in a mixture of kanji and kana. :: These variations cannot be said to be extraordinary in their appearance; Inoue, Sugishima, Ukita, Minagawa, and Kashu (1994) report that variation is common even among high frequency words for which kanji is the typical representation. :: Kana is a syllabic script, and kanji is a logographic or ideographic script. Any individual Chinese character as used in the japanese language. : I know about a thousand kanji.

Related terms

Hanzi (Chinese) hanja (Korean) {{l, vi, Hán tự}} (Vietnamese)

Translations

Arabic: كَانْجِي, m, طَابِع يَابَانِيّ, m, حَرْف يَابَانِيّ, m Armenian: կանձի Belarusian: кандзі́, m Bulgarian: канджи, f Chinese: : Mandarin: {{qualifier, when used in Japanese}} 日本漢字, sc=Hani}}, 日本汉字 (Rìběn hànzì, sc=Hani), {{qualifier, any Chinese character 漢字, sc=Hani, 汉字, tr=hànzì, sc=Hani Czech: kandži, m Dutch: kanji, n Finnish: kanji French: kanji, m Georgian: ყანჯი German: Kanji, n, japanisch, japanisches zeichen, n Greek: κάντζι, n-p Hebrew: קאנג׳י Hindi: कानजी Hungarian: kandzsi Indonesian: kanji {{qualifier, specifically Chinese characters used in Japan}}, honji {{qualifier, any Chinese characters}} Italian: kanji, m Japanese: {{qualifier, any Chinese character}} 漢字, tr=かんじ, kanji, {{qualifier, specifically Chinese characters used in Japan}} 日本における漢字 (Nihon ni okeru kanji) Khmer: កាន់ជិ Korean: {{qualifier, any Chinese character}} 한자 (漢字), 일문 한자 (日文漢字), 일본어의 한자 (日本語의 漢字) Macedonian: канџи́, m Malay: kanji Marathi: कान्जी, n Mongolian: канжи, sc=Cyrl Persian: کانجی (kânji) Portuguese: kanji, m Punjabi: ਕਾਂਜੀ Russian: кандзи́, m, япо́нский иеро́глиф, m Serbo-Croatian: : Cyrillic: канђи, m : Roman: kanđi, m, kanji, m Slovak: kandži, m Spanish: kanji, m Swahili: kanji Swedish: kanji Thai: คันจิ Turkish: kanji Ukrainian: кандзі́, m Urdu: کانجی Vietnamese: chữ kanji, chữ nhật (字日) Western Panjabi: کانجی

See also

kana (仮名) hiragana (平仮名) katakana (片仮名) kyūjitai (旧字体) romaji (ローマ字) shinjitai (新字体) Appendix:Jōyō kanji by reading w:kanji, wikipedia article about kanji

Alternative forms

Kanji

Etymology

Borrowed from {{bor, en, ja, -}} {{ja-r, 漢字, かんじ, Chinese characters}}, from {{der, en, ltc, -}} {{ltc-l, 漢, Han dynasty, China}} + {{der, en, ltc, -}} {{ltc-l, 字, [written] character}} (compare {{cog, ko, 한자}}, {{cog, cmn, 漢字, tr=hànzì, , , pos=, id=, g=}}, {{cog, vi, Hán tự}}). {{doublet, en, hanja}}.

Anagrams

Kajin