漢字 — meaning in English

English meaning

• Chinese adj Relating to China, its people, or their culture.
• kanji noun The system of writing Japanese using characters borrowed from Chinese, where each character can represent a whole word or concept.

Senses

漢字 is used for these senses in English:

• Chinese (uncountable, collective) The citizens of China, particularly citizens of the People's Republic of China.
• 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.

Chinese — full definition

1. adj Relating to China, its people, or their culture.
2. name The Chinese language, especially Standard Mandarin, written in Chinese characters.

kanji — full definition

1. noun The system of writing Japanese using characters borrowed from Chinese, where each character can represent a whole word or concept.
2. noun A single character used in this system.

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