kanji

• Kanji

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

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

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

   I know about a thousand kanji.

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

• 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

• Kajin

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kanji m (plural kanjis)

1. kanji

• IPA^(key): /kan.d͡ʒi/
• Hyphenation: kan‧ji

kanji (plural kanji-kanji, first-person possessive kanjiku, second-person possessive kanjimu, third-person possessive kanjinya)

1. tapioca.

• IPA^(key): /kan.d͡ʒi/
• Hyphenation: kan‧ji

kanji (plural kanji-kanji)

1. give up.

Borrowed from Japanese 漢 (かん)字 (じ) (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)).

• IPA^(key): /kan.d͡ʒi/
• Hyphenation: kan‧ji

kanji (plural kanji-kanji, first-person possessive kanjiku, second-person possessive kanjimu, third-person possessive kanjinya)

1. Han characters in Japanese language usage.

• honji
• hanzi

• “kanji” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

kanji

1. Rōmaji transcription of かんじ

kanji

1. starch

kanji m (plural kanjis)

1. kanji (Chinese characters in Japanese context)

kanji m (plural kanjis)

1. kanji