kanji

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• Kanji

Etymology

Romanization of Japanese 漢字 (かんじ) (literally “Chinese characters”), from the Mandarin Chinese 漢字 (hànzì).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kănji, IPA: /ˈkændʒi/, X-SAMPA: /"k{ndZi/
• Rhymes: -ændʒi

Noun

kanji (plural kanji)

1. Chinese characters as used for the Japanese language.

Related terms

• hanzi (Chinese)
• hanja (Korean)
• Hán tự (Vietnamese)

Translations

Chinese characters in Japanese context

• Arabic: كانجي (ar) (kaanjiy) m, طابع يابانية (ar) (Taabi` yabaaniy) m, حرف ياباني (ar) (Harf yabaaniy) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (when used in Japanese) 日本漢字 (cmn), 日本汉字 (cmn) (Rìběn hànzì), (any Chinese character) 漢字 (cmn), 汉字 (cmn) (hànzì)

• Czech: kandži (cs) m
• Dutch: kanji (nl) n
• Finnish: kanji (fi)
• French: kanji (fr) m
• German: Kanji (de) n, japanisches Zeichen (de) n
• Hebrew: קאנג'י (he)
• Hungarian: kandzsi (hu)
• Italian: kanji (it) m
• Japanese: 漢字 (ja) (かんじ, kanji)

• Korean: (any Chinese character) 한자 (ko) (hanja) (漢字), 일문 한자 (ko) (ilmun hanja) (日文漢字)
• Macedonian: канџи (mk) (kandží) m
• Malay: kanji (ms)
• Marathi: कान्जी (mr) (kānjī) n
• Persian: کانجی (fa) (kânji)
• Portuguese: kanji (pt) m
• Russian: кандзи (ru) (kandzí) m, японский иероглиф (japónskij ijeróglif) m
• Serbo-Croatian: канђи (sh) m, kanđi (sh) m, kanji (sh) m
• Slovak: kandži (sk) m
• Spanish: carácter japonés (es) m
• Swahili: kanji (sw)
• Thai: คันจิ (th) (kan-jì)
• Vietnamese: Chữ Kanji (vi), chữ Nhật (vi) (字日)

See also

• kana (仮名, かな)
• hiragana (平仮名, ひらがな)
• katakana (片仮名, カタカナ)
• kyūjitai (旧字体, きゅうじたい)
• romaji (ローマ字, ろうまじ)
• shinjitai (新字体, しんじたい)
• Appendix:Joyo kanji by reading
• Wikipedia article about kanji

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French

Noun

kanji m (plural kanjis)

1. kanji

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Japanese

Romanization

kanji

1. See かんじ

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Lojban

Etymology

In Lojbanized spelling.

• Chinese: ji — 計 (计) [jì]
• English: rekan — reckon
• Hindi: ganan — गणन [gaṇana]
• Spanish: kalkul — calcular

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkan.ʒi/

Gismu

kanji (rafsi kaj)

1. calculate; x1 calculates/reckons/computes x2 [value (ni)/state] from data x3 by process x4.

See also

• kancu
• jdice
• skami

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Malay

Noun

kanji

1. starch