kanji

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see also: Kanji

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Pronunciation

• enPR: kănji, IPA: /ˈkændʒi/
• (Australia) IPA: /ˈkaːndʒi/

Noun

kanji (plural 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

• French: kanji
• German: Kanji, japanisch
• Italian: kanji
• Portuguese: kanji
• Russian: кандзи́
• Spanish: kanji

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Kanji

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Proper noun

1. Alternative letter-case form of kanji

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