kanji — meaning in English
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English meaning
- kanji noun The system of writing Japanese using characters borrowed from Chinese, where each character can represent a whole word or concept.
Senses
kanji is used for these senses in English:
- Chinese character Any character used in the written form of several languages of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
- kanji Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language.
kanji — full definition
- noun The system of writing Japanese using characters borrowed from Chinese, where each character can represent a whole word or concept.
- noun A single character used in this system.