See also: 汉字

Chinese

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Chinese; name of a dynasty; man
letter; symbol; character
letter; symbol; character; word
 
trad. (漢字)
simp. (汉字)
 
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漢字汉字 (hànzì): Chinese characters, showing the Traditional Chinese script on the left, and Simplified Chinese script on the right.

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (32) (15)
Final () (61) (19)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter xanH dziH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/hɑnH/ /d͡zɨH/
Pan
Wuyun
/hɑnH/ /d͡zɨH/
Shao
Rongfen
/xɑnH/ /d͡zieH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/hanH/ /d͡zɨH/
Li
Rong
/xɑnH/ /d͡ziəH/
Wang
Li
/xɑnH/ /d͡zĭəH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/xɑnH/ /d͡zʱiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
hàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
hon3 zi6

Noun

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漢字

  1. Chinese character; Han character; hanzi

Synonyms

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (漢字):

Others:

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Japanese

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Etymology

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Kanji in this term
かん
Grade: 3

Grade: 1
goon
Alternative spelling
漢字 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese compound 漢字 (MC xanH dziH, literally “Han Chinese + character”). Compare modern Mandarin 漢字汉字 (hànzì), Hokkien 漢字汉字 (hàn-jī / hàn-lī).

Pronunciation

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  • (Tokyo) んじ [kàńjí] (Heiban – [0])[1][2][3]
  • IPA(key): [kã̠ɲ̟d͡ʑi]
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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(かん)() (kanji

  1. kanji

Usage notes

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The term literally means “Chinese characters”, and refers broadly to any such ideographic or logographic character originating in written Chinese, or created anew along similar lines. This latter category includes some characters created in Japan from originally Chinese elements and called 国字 (kokuji, literally national (i.e. Japanese) characters), and other characters that were modified over time into distinctly Japanese forms and called 新字体 (shinjitai, literally new character forms). Contrast with 仮名 (kana, literally borrowed label), uniquely Japanese phonetic characters derived either from cursive forms of kanji (the 平仮名 (hiragana)) or from shorthand that abbreviated characters to use just specific parts of the original kanji (the 片仮名 (katakana)).

Synonyms

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Hyponyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

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Hanja in this term

Noun

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漢字 (hanja) (hangeul 한자)

  1. hanja form? of 한자 (Chinese character; hanja)

Okinawan

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Etymology

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Kanji in this term
かん
Grade: 3

Grade: 1
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
漢字 (kyūjitai)

Attested in the 沖縄語典 (Okinawa Goten, “Okinawan Dictionary”) as かんじ.[1] Borrowed from Japanese 漢字 (kanji).

Noun

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(かん)() (kanji

  1. (hapax, ghost word, obsolete) kanji; Chinese character

References

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  1. ^ Nakamoto, Masayo (中本政世) (1896) 沖縄語典 [Documentation of the Language of Okinawa], Hikone (彦根市): Eishōdō (永昌堂), →DOI, page 28

Vietnamese

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chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun

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漢字

  1. chữ Hán form of Hán tự (Chinese character).