kanji

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.

• Kanji

• enPR: kănji, IPA^(key): /ˈkænd͡ʒi/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkaːnd͡ʒi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnd͡ʒi/
• Rhymes: -ændʒi
• Homophone: congee (US)

kanji (countable and uncountable, plural kanji or kanjis)

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.

• jōyō kanji

• Hanzi (Chinese)
• hanja (Korean)
• Hán tự (Vietnamese)

• 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

Borrowed from Hindi कांजी (kāñjī).

kanji (uncountable)

1. A North Indian fermented drink made with beetroot, black mustard seeds, carrots etc.
2. Drink made from sugarcane vinegar.
3. Rice gruel made by fermentation of rice and tastes sour.

• Kajin

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kanji m (plural kanjis)

1. kanji

From Malay kanji, from Tamil கஞ்சி (kañci), from Sanskrit काञ्जीक (kāñjīka, “sour gruel, water in boiled rice”).

• IPA^(key): /kan.d͡ʒi/
• Hyphenation: kan‧ji

kanji (first-person possessive kanjiku, second-person possessive kanjimu, third-person possessive kanjinya)

1. tapioca

• tapioka

• IPA^(key): /kan.d͡ʒi/
• Hyphenation: kan‧ji

kanji

1. give up.

Borrowed from Japanese 漢字(かんじ) (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.

• IPA^(key): /kan.d͡ʒi/
• Hyphenation: kan‧ji

kanji (first-person possessive kanjiku, second-person possessive kanjimu, third-person possessive kanjinya)

1. Kanji, Chinese characters in Japanese language usage.

• honji
• hanzi

• “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.

kanji

1. Rōmaji transcription of かんじ

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kanji (Jawi spelling کنجي, plural kanji-kanji, informal 1st possessive kanjiku, 2nd possessive kanjimu, 3rd possessive kanjinya)

1. starch

• “kanji” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Unadapted borrowing from English kanji.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkan.d͡ʑi/, /ˈkan.d͡ʐi/

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• Rhymes: -and͡ʑi
• Syllabification: kan‧ji

kanji n (indeclinable)

1. kanji (Chinese characters in Japanese context)

   Coordinate terms: hiragana, katakana

• kanji in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 漢字(かんじ) (kanji, “Chinese characters”).

kanji m (plural kanjis)

1. kanji (Chinese characters in Japanese context)

kanji m (plural kanjis)

1. kanji