English
kanji
see also: Kanji
Pronunciation
  • enPR: kănji, IPA: /ˈkænd͡ʒi/
  • (Australia) IPA: /ˈkaːnd͡ʒi/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈkɑnd͡ʒi/
Noun

kanji

  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.
Related terms
  • Hanzi (Chinese)
  • hanja (Korean)
  • Hán tự (Vietnamese)
Translations Noun

kanji (uncountable)

  1. A North Indian fermented drink made with beetroot, black mustard seeds, carrots etc.
  2. Drink made from sugarcane vinegar.
  3. Rice gruel made by fermentation of rice and tastes sour.
Kanji
Proper noun
  1. Alternative case form of kanji


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