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hanzi
English
Noun
hanzi (plural hanzi)
- Alternative letter-case form of Hanzi
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin ?? (hànzì, “Han characters”), from Middle Chinese ? (xàn, “Han dynasty, China”) + ? (dzì, “[written] character”). Compare Cantonese ?? (hon3 zi6), Min Nan ?? (hàn-j?, hàn-l?) and Japanese ?? (kanji). Doublet of hanja, honji, and kanji.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /han.zi/
- Hyphenation: han?zi
Noun
hanzi (first-person possessive hanziku, second-person possessive hanzimu, third-person possessive hanzinya)
- (colloquial) Hanzi; Chinese character.
Related terms
Shona
Etymology
From Afrikaans gans; compare Zulu ihansi.
Noun
hanzí 9 (plural hanzí 10)
- goose
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kanji
English
Alternative forms
- Kanji
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese ?? (kanji, “Chinese characters”), from Middle Chinese ? (MC h?nH, “Han dynasty, China”) + Middle Chinese ? (MC d?z?H, “[written] character”) (compare Korean ?? (hanja), Mandarin ?? (hànzì), Vietnamese Hán t?). Doublet of hanja.
Pronunciation
- enPR: k?nji, IPA(key): /?kænd?i/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /?ka?nd?i/
- (US) IPA(key): /?k?nd?i/
- Rhymes: -ænd?i
Noun
kanji (plural kanji or kanjis)
- (uncountable) The system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters.
- Japanese is written in a mixture of kanji and kana.
- These variations cannot be said to be extraordinary in their appearance; Inoue, Sugishima, Ukita, Minagawa, and Kashu (1994) report that variation is common even among high frequency words for which kanji is the typical representation. [1]
- Kana is a syllabic script, and kanji is a logographic or ideographic script. [2]
- Japanese is written in a mixture of kanji and kana.
- Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language.
- I know about a thousand kanji.
Related terms
- Hanzi (Chinese)
- hanja (Korean)
- Hán t? (Vietnamese)
Translations
See also
- kana (??)
- hiragana (???)
- katakana (???)
- ky?jitai (???)
- romaji (????)
- shinjitai (???)
- Appendix:J?y? kanji by reading
- Wikipedia article about kanji
Anagrams
- Kajin
French
Pronunciation
Noun
kanji m (plural kanjis)
- kanji
Indonesian
Etymology 1
From Malay kanji, from Tamil ????? (kañci), from Sanskrit ??????? (k?ñj?ka, “sour gruel, water in boiled rice”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kan.d??i/
- Hyphenation: kan?ji
Noun
kanji (first-person possessive kanjiku, second-person possessive kanjimu, third-person possessive kanjinya)
- tapioca
Synonyms
- tapioka
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kan.d??i/
- Hyphenation: kan?ji
Adjective
kanji (plural kanji-kanji)
- give up.
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Japanese ?? (kanji, “Han characters”), from Middle Chinese ? (xàn, “Han dynasty, China”) + ? (dzì, “[written] character”) (compare Mandarin ?? (hànzì), Min Nan ?? (hàn-j?, hàn-l?), and Cantonese ?? (hon3 zi6)). Doublet of hanja, hanzi, and honji.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kan.d??i/
- Hyphenation: kan?ji
Noun
kanji (first-person possessive kanjiku, second-person possessive kanjimu, third-person possessive kanjinya)
- Kanji, Chinese characters in Japanese language usage.
Related terms
- honji
- hanzi
Further reading
- “kanji” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Japanese
Romanization
kanji
- R?maji transcription of ???
Malay
Noun
kanji (Jawi spelling ?????, plural kanji-kanji, informal 1st possessive kanjiku, impolite 2nd possessive kanjimu, 3rd possessive kanjinya)
- starch
Further reading
- “kanji” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Polish
Etymology
From Japanese ??, from Middle Chinese ? + ?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kan.d??i/
Noun
kanji n (indeclinable)
- kanji
Further reading
- kanji in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- kanji in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Noun
kanji m (plural kanjis)
- kanji (Chinese characters in Japanese context)
Spanish
Noun
kanji m (plural kanjis)
- kanji
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