kanji
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Јапански 漢字 (kanji, “Chinese characters”), from Средњи Кинески 漢 (“Han dynasty, China”) + Средњи Кинески 字 (MC d͡zɨH, “[written] character”) (compare Корејски 한자 (hanja), Мандарин 漢字 (hànzì), Вијетнамски Hán tự). Дублети of hanja.
Pronunciation
- enPR: kănji, МФА(кључ): /ˈkændʒi/
- (General Australian) МФА(кључ): /ˈkaːndʒi/
- (US) МФА(кључ): /ˈkɑndʒi/
- Риме: -ændʒi
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]
- Japanese is written in a mixture of kanji and kana.
- Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language.
- I know about a thousand kanji.
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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
- Wikipedia article about kanji
Anagrams
- Kajin (alphagram aijkn)
Француски
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
kanji m (plural kanjis)
Indonesian
Etymology 1
From Малајски kanji, from Тамилски கஞ்சி (kañci), from Санскрт काञ्जीक (kāñjīka, “sour gruel, water in boiled rice”).
Pronunciation
Noun
kanji
Synonyms
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Adjective
- give up.
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Јапански 漢字 (kanji, “Han characters”), from Средњи Кинески 漢 (xàn, “Han dynasty, China”) + 字 (dzì, “[written] character”) (compare Мандарин 漢字 (hànzì), Мин Нан 漢字 (hàn-jī, hàn-lī), and Кантонски 漢字 (hon3 zi6)). Дублети of hanja, hanzi, and honji.
Pronunciation
Noun
kanji
- Kanji, Chinese characters in Japanese language usage.
Related terms
Further reading
Romanization
kanji
Malay
Pronunciation
Audio (MY) (file)
Noun
kanji (Jawi spelling کنجي)
Further reading
Polish
Etymology
Позајмљено од Јапански 漢字, from Средњи Кинески 漢 + 字.
Pronunciation
Noun
kanji n (indeclinable)
Further reading
- kanji in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- kanji in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Португалски
Noun
kanji m (plural kanjis)
- kanji (Chinese characters in Japanese context)
Шпански
Noun
kanji m (plural kanjis)