kanji

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (uncountable) The system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters.
2. (countable, uncountable) Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language.

Sinonieme

Chinese characters

Chinese character

man’s handwriting

Kanji

Vertalings

Kanji

kanji

kanji

kanji

kanji

carácter japonés

kanji

sinojapanisches Schriftzeichen

حَرْف يَابَانِيّ

caractères sino-japonais

kanji

japanisches Zeichen

كَانْجِي

طَابِع يَابَانِيّ

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈkænd͡ʒi/

Etimologie (Engels)

Verwante met Koreaans: 한자

Verwante met Mandarin Chinese: 漢字

Verwante met Viëtnamees: Hán tự

Verwante met Kantonees: 漢字

In summary

Borrowed from Japanese 漢字(かんじ) (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.