Meaning

5 senses
  1. (uncountable)The system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters.

    Japanese is written in a mixture of kanji and kana.

    Kanji, japanisches Zeichen

    кандзи́kandzí, япо́нский иеро́глифjapónskij ijeróglif

    кандзі́kandzí

  2. (countable, uncountable)Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language.

    I know about a thousand kanji.

  3. (uncountable)A North Indian fermented drink made with beetroot, black mustard seeds, carrots etc.

  4. (uncountable)Drink made from sugarcane vinegar.

  5. (uncountable)Rice gruel made by fermentation of rice and tastes sour.

Examples

75 sentences
  1. Can you read this kanji?

    Ти можеш прочитати цей ієрогліф?

    ruТы можешь прочитать эти иероглифы?

    deKannst du dieses Kanji-Zeichen lesen?

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  2. I've been learning how to write kanji with a brush.

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  3. This book has many kanji, so it's difficult to read.

    ruВ этой книге много кандзи, поэтому её трудно читать.

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  4. What does this kanji mean?

    ruЧто значит этот кандзи?

    deWas bedeutet dieses Kanji?

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  5. I've decided to study kanji.

    ruЯ решил учить кандзи.

    deIch habe mich entschlossen, Kanji zu lernen.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
Chinese characters in Japanese context:
Русский
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Chinese characters in Japanese context:
Deutsch
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Chinese characters in Japanese context:

Origin

Borrowed from Japanese 漢字(かんじ) (kanji, “Chinese characters”), from Middle Chinese 漢 (MC xa

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.

Borrowed from Hindi कांजी (kāñjī).

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Forms

plural: kanji / kanjis
Singularkanji
Pluralkanji / kanjis

regular

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
kanji — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto