kanji
Americannoun
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a system of Japanese writing using Chinese-derived characters.
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a character in this system.
noun
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a Japanese writing system using characters mainly derived from Chinese ideograms
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a character in this system
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of kanji
1915–20; < Japanese < Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese hàn Han (i.e., China) + zì characters
Example Sentences
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One resident told Kanji Video that his hands had been numb within 10 seconds of stepping outdoors, but that he had seen very few other people around.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2023
Kanji Inoki was born in Yokohama on Feb. 20, 1943, and moved to Brazil with his family when he was 13 and worked at a coffee plantation.
From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2022
Born Kanji Inoki in 1943 in Yokohama, just outside Tokyo, he moved to Brazil with his family when he was 13 and worked at a coffee plantation.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2022
Yuya Endo and Kanji Tsuda play Onoda at different ages.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2022
No matter to which extent such pictorial signs are refined-and indeed, characters in Chinese and Kanji are extremely sophisticated- they maintain a relation to what they refer to.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
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