kanji
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]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
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: kănji, IPA(key): /ˈkænd͡ʒi/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈkaːnd͡ʒi/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɑnd͡ʒi/
- Rhymes: -ændʒi
- Homophone: congee (US)
Noun
[edit]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
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See also
[edit]- 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
[edit]Borrowed from Hindi कांजी (kāñjī).
Noun
[edit]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
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kanji m (plural kanjis)
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Malay kanji, from Tamil கஞ்சி (kañci), from Sanskrit काञ्जीक (kāñjīka, “sour gruel, water in boiled rice”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kanji (uncountable)
Synonyms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]kanji
- give up.
Etymology 3
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]kanji (uncountable)
- Kanji, Chinese characters in Japanese language usage.
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “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
[edit]Romanization
[edit]kanji
Malay
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kanji (Jawi spelling کنجي, plural kanji-kanji, informal 1st possessive kanjiku, 2nd possessive kanjimu, 3rd possessive kanjinya)
Further reading
[edit]- “kanji” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English kanji.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kanji n (indeclinable)
Further reading
[edit]- kanji in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 漢字 (kanji, “Chinese characters”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]kanji m (plural kanjis)
- kanji (Chinese characters in Japanese context)
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]kanji m (plural kanjis)
- English terms borrowed from Japanese
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- English doublets
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- Rhymes:English/ændʒi
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- Polish terms borrowed from English
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- Polish 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Polish/and͡ʑi
- Rhymes:Polish/and͡ʑi/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Polish/and͡ʐi
- Rhymes:Polish/and͡ʐi/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
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