different between kanji vs furigana

English

Alternative forms

• Kanji

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ??(???) (kanji, “Chinese characters”), from Middle Chinese ? (MC h?n^H, “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)

1. (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]

2. 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)

1. 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)

1. tapioca

Synonyms

• tapioka

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kan.d??i/
• Hyphenation: kan?ji

Adjective

kanji (plural kanji-kanji)

1. 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)

1. 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

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Malay

Noun

kanji (Jawi spelling ?????, plural kanji-kanji, informal 1st possessive kanjiku, impolite 2nd possessive kanjimu, 3rd possessive kanjinya)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. kanji (Chinese characters in Japanese context)

Spanish

Noun

kanji m (plural kanjis)

1. kanji

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ???? (furigana, literally “assigned phonetic character”).

Noun

furigana (plural furigana)

1. Kana printed next to or above a kanji or other character to indicate the pronunciation.

Synonyms

• ruby character, rubi character

Translations

Anagrams

• Garifuna, Garífuna, fungaria

Japanese

Romanization

furigana

1. R?maji transcription of ????