kanji
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Japanese 漢字 (kanji, “Chinese characters”), from Middle Chinese 漢 (MC xanH, “Han dynasty, China”) + Middle Chinese 字 (MC dziH, “[written] character”) (Compare Korean 한자 (hanja), Mandarin 漢字 / 汉字 (hànzì), Vietnamese Hán tự, Hokkien 漢字 / 汉字 (hàn-jī / hàn-lī), Cantonese 漢字 / 汉字 (hon3 zi6)). Doublet of hanja and Hanzi.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- enPR: kănji, IPA(key): /ˈkænd͡ʒi/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈkaːnd͡ʒi/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɑnd͡ʒi/
- Rhymes: -ændʒi
- Homophone: congee (US)
Noun
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]
- Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language.
- I know about a thousand kanji.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
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See also
- 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
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Hindi कांजी (kāñjī).
Noun
kanji (uncountable)
- A North Indian fermented drink made with beetroot, black mustard seeds, carrots etc.
- Drink made from sugarcane vinegar.
- Rice gruel made by fermentation of rice and tastes sour.
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kan.ʒi/
Audio: (file)
- IPA(key): /kɑ̃n.ʒi/
Audio: (file)
- IPA(key): /kɑ̃.ʒi/
Audio: (file)
Noun
kanji m (plural kanjis)
Indonesian
Etymology 1
From Malay kanji, from Tamil கஞ்சி (kañci), from Sanskrit काञ्जीक (kāñjīka, “sour gruel, water in boiled rice”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kan.d͡ʒi/
- Hyphenation: kan‧ji
Noun
kanji (uncountable)
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kan.d͡ʒi/
- Hyphenation: kan‧ji
Adjective
kanji (comparative lebih kanji, superlative paling kanji)
- give up
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Japanese 漢字 (kanji, “Han characters”), from Middle Chinese 漢 (xàn, “Han dynasty, China”) + 字 (dzì, “[written] character”) (compare Mandarin 漢字 / 汉字 (hànzì), Min Nan 漢字 / 汉字 (hàn-jī, hàn-lī), and Cantonese 漢字 / 汉字 (hon3 zi6)). Doublet of hanja, hanzi, and honji.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kan.d͡ʒi/
- Hyphenation: kan‧ji
Noun
kanji (uncountable)
- Kanji, Chinese characters in Japanese language usage
Related terms
Further reading
- “kanji” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Japanese
Romanization
kanji
Malay
Pronunciation
Audio (Malaysia): (file)
Noun
kanji (Jawi spelling کنجي, plural kanji-kanji)
Further reading
- “kanji” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English kanji.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkan.d͡ʑi/, /ˈkan.d͡ʐi/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -and͡ʑi, -and͡ʐi
- Syllabification: kan‧ji
Noun
kanji n (indeclinable)
Further reading
- kanji in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 漢字 (kanji, “Chinese characters”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /kɐ̃ˈʒi/, (careful pronunciation) /kɐ̃ˈd͡ʒi/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkɐ̃.d͡ʒi/
Noun
kanji m (plural kanjis)
- kanji (Chinese characters in Japanese context)
Spanish
Noun
kanji m (plural kanjis)