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Kanji

//ˈkænd͡ʒi// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative letter-case form of kanji. alt-of
Noun
  1. 1
    The system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters. uncountable

    "Japanese is written in a mixture of kanji and kana."

  2. 2
    A North Indian fermented drink made with beetroot, black mustard seeds, carrots etc. uncountable
  3. 3
    Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language. countable, uncountable

    "I know about a thousand kanji."

  4. 4
    Drink made from sugarcane vinegar. uncountable
  5. 5
    Rice gruel made by fermentation of rice and tastes sour. uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hindi कांजी (kāñjī).

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