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Kanji

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Kanji"

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Word	Definition
chinese characternoun	Any character used in the written form of several languages of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
chinesenoun	Of, from, or related to China, particularly now the People's Republic of China.
katakananoun	(uncountable) A Japanese syllabary used when writing words borrowed from foreign languages other than Chinese, specific names of plants and animals and other jargon, onomatopoeia, or to emphasize a word or phrase. Also used to write the Ainu language.
kananoun	The hiragana and katakana syllabaries. These are made up of characters that represent individual syllables, which are used to write Japanese words and particles. Kana are derived from kanji.
kokujinoun	Any of the kanji characters invented in Japan.
hiragananoun	(uncountable) The main syllabary for the Japanese language, used to represent native Japanese words, including particles, and when kanji is used, to represent verb and adjective endings.
romajinoun	A representation of Japanese in Latin script.
sinogramnoun	(linguistics) Any character used in Chinese writing; hanzi.
hanjanoun	Any individual Han character as used in the Korean language.
jukujikunnoun	(linguistics) A Japanese word whose kanji spelling conveys the meaning based on the individual characters, but whose reading is not directly related to the spelling.
man'yōgananoun	The early Japanese syllabary using Chinese characters to represent Japanese sounds: the predecessor of hiragana and katakana.
writing systemnoun	(linguistics) A system for writing one or more languages; a particular alphabetic, syllabic, logographic, or other scheme. For example, the Latin alphabet or the Cyrillic alphabet.
stroke ordernoun	The standard sequence in which a Chinese character is written in Chinese, Japanese or Korean writing.
shinjitainoun	The simplified form of Japanese kanji used after 1947.
rōmajinoun	Alternative spelling of romaji. [A representation of Japanese in Latin script.]
atejinoun	(linguistics) The use of kanji chosen primarily for their phonetic (narrow sense) or semantic (broad sense) value to represent foreign or native Japanese words, or the kanji so used.
printingnoun	(uncountable) The process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology.
katakanizationnoun	The writing of a non-Japanese word in katakana
hanzinoun	Synonym of Chinese character (specifically in relation to Chinese): the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
kyūjitainoun	The traditional form of Japanese kanji used before 1947.