kanji
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Japanese 漢字 (kanji, “Chinese characters”), from Middle Chinese 漢 (MC hɑnH, “Han dynasty, China”) + Middle Chinese 字 (MC d͡zɨH, “[written] character”) (compare Korean 한자 (hanja), Mandarin 漢字 (hànzì), Vietnamese Hán tự). Doublet of hanja.
PronunciationEdit
- enPR: kănji, IPA(key): /ˈkændʒi/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈkaːndʒi/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɑndʒi/
- Rhymes: -ændʒi
NounEdit
kanji (countable and uncountable, 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. [1]
- Kana is a syllabic script, and kanji is a logographic or ideographic script. [2]
- Japanese is written in a mixture of kanji and kana.
- Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language.
- I know about a thousand kanji.
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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
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Audio (file)
NounEdit
kanji m (plural kanjis)
IndonesianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Malay kanji, from Tamil கஞ்சி (kañci), from Sanskrit काञ्जीक (kāñjīka, “sour gruel, water in boiled rice”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
kanji (first-person possessive kanjiku, second-person possessive kanjimu, third-person possessive kanjinya)
SynonymsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
kanji
- give up.
Etymology 3Edit
Borrowed from Japanese 漢字 (kanji, “Han characters”), from Middle Chinese 漢 (xàn, “Han dynasty, China”) + 字 (dzì, “[written] character”) (compare Mandarin 漢字 (hànzì), Min Nan 漢字 (hàn-jī, hàn-lī), and Cantonese 漢字 (hon3 zi6)). Doublet of hanja, hanzi, and honji.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
kanji (first-person possessive kanjiku, second-person possessive kanjimu, third-person possessive kanjinya)
- Kanji, Chinese characters in Japanese language usage.
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “kanji” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
JapaneseEdit
RomanizationEdit
kanji
MalayEdit
NounEdit
kanji (Jawi spelling کنجي, plural kanji-kanji, informal 1st possessive kanjiku, impolite 2nd possessive kanjimu, 3rd possessive kanjinya)
Further readingEdit
- “kanji” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Japanese 漢字, from Middle Chinese 漢 + 字.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
kanji n (indeclinable)
Further readingEdit
- kanji in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- kanji in Polish dictionaries at PWN
PortugueseEdit
NounEdit
kanji m (plural kanjis)
- kanji (Chinese characters in Japanese context)
SpanishEdit
NounEdit
kanji m (plural kanjis)