kanji

See also: Kanji

English

Borrowed from Japanese 漢字 (kanji, “Chinese characters”), from Middle Chinese 漢 (xàn, “Han dynasty, China”) + 字 (dzì, “[written] character”) (compare Korean 한자 (hanja), Mandarin 汉字 (hànzì), Vietnamese Hán tự).

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.

Chinese characters in Japanese context

Arabic: كَانْجِي‎‎ (ar) m (kānjī), طَابِع يَابَانِيّ‎‎ m (ṭābiʿ yābāniyy), حَرْف يَابَانِيّ‎‎ m (ḥarf yābāniyy)
Chinese:
Mandarin: (when used in Japanese) 日本漢字, 日本汉字 (Rìběn hànzì), (any Chinese character) 漢字 (zh), 汉字 (zh) (hànzì)
Czech: kandži (cs) m
Dutch: kanji (nl) n
Finnish: kanji (fi)
French: kanji (fr) m
German: Kanji (de) n, japanisches Zeichen n
Hebrew: קאנג'י‎‎
Hungarian: kandzsi (hu)
Italian: kanji (it) m
Japanese: (any Chinese character) 漢字 (ja) (かんじ, kanji), (specifically Chinese characters used in Japan) 日本における漢字 (Nihon ni okeru kanji)
Korean: (any Chinese character) 한자 (ko) (hanja) (漢字), 일문 한자 (ilmun hanja) (日文漢字)
Macedonian: канџи m (kandží)

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