かんじ
Meanings
Noun
1. kanji; Chinese character
Pitch accent
んじ
Composed of
China; Han dynasty (China, 202 BCE-220 CE); Han (majority Chinese ethnic group); man
character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")
Used in vocabulary (33 in total)
kanji for common use; jōyō kanji; list of 2,136 kanji established in 2010, formerly a list of 1,945 established in 1981
kanji conversion
kanji dictionary; character dictionary
test of kanji skills; kanji test
daily-use kanji (superseded in 1981)
countries where Chinese characters are used or were historically used
old-style kanji
kanji officially for use in names
restrictions on the number of kanji recognized for usage (recognised)
supplementary kanji; 5,801 kanji coded in JIS X 0212 to supplement those in JIS X 0208
mixed writing (kanji and kana)
restricted Chinese characters
the 1,026 kanji taught in Japanese primary schools
non-jōyō kanji; kanji outside the common-use kanji list
(the so-called) kanji culture
kanji test; test of kanji skills
Japanese pronunciation of a kanji (based on adopted Chinese pronunciations)
unified Chinese character
kanji cultural sphere; countries where Chinese characters are used or were historically used
single kanji
dialectal kanji; kanji only used in a specific region
kanji printed as ruby, usually to explain kana
kanji support
Han unification
kanji encoding method
direct kanji input (as opposed to kana-kanji conversion)
primary school kanji; 1,026 kanji studied in primary school
substitute kanji; jōyō kanji used in place of a non-jōyō kanji
Examples (16 in total)
Kanji are difficult to read.
I've decided to study kanji.
I can write kanji.