kanji

See also: Kanji

Contents

EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• Kanji

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• enPR: kănji, IPA^(key): /ˈkændʒi/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkaːndʒi/
• Rhymes: -ændʒi

NounEdit

kanji (plural kanji or kanjis)

1. (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. [1]
   • Kana is a syllabic script, and kanji is a logographic or ideographic script. [2]
2. Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language.

   I know about a thousand kanji.

Related termsEdit

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

TranslationsEdit

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)
• Indonesian: kanji (id) (specifically Chinese characters used in Japan), honji (id) (any Chinese characters)
• 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 (ko)), 일문 한자 (ilmun hanja) (日文漢字), 일본어의 한자 (ilboneoui hanja) (日本語의 漢字)
• Macedonian: канџи́ m (kandží)

• Malay: kanji (ms)
• Marathi: कान्जी n (kānjī)
• Mongolian: канжи (kanži)
• Persian: کانجی‎‎ (kânji)
• Portuguese: kanji (pt) m
• Russian: кандзи́ (ru) m (kandzí), япо́нский иеро́глиф m (japónskij ijeróglif)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: канђи m

  Roman: kanđi m, kanji m

• Slovak: kandži m
• Spanish: carácter japonés m
• Swahili: kanji
• Swedish: kanji (sv)
• Thai: คันจิ (th) (kan-jì)
• Turkish: kanji
• Vietnamese: chữ kanji, chữ Nhật (字日)

See alsoEdit

• 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
• Wikipedia article about kanji

AnagramsEdit

• Kajin

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FrenchEdit

NounEdit

kanji m (plural kanjis)

1. kanji

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JapaneseEdit

RomanizationEdit

kanji

1. Rōmaji transcription of かんじ

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MalayEdit

NounEdit

kanji

1. starch

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PortugueseEdit

NounEdit

kanji m (plural kanjis)

1. kanji (Chinese characters in Japanese context)

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SpanishEdit

NounEdit

kanji m (plural kanjis)

1. kanji