different between kanji vs han

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

From Middle English han, contraction of haven.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hæn/, /he?n/
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /h?n/

Verb

han

1. (obsolete) plural simple present of have

Anagrams

• HNA, Nah., ahn, nah

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [h?n]

Noun

han m (indefinite plural hane, definite singular hani, definite plural hanet)

1. (archaic) roadside shelter for travellers and their animals: roadside hostelry, caravanserai, inn
2. (pejorative) fleabag hotel
3. messy place with no control of who comes and who leaves, regular flophouse

Basque

Pronoun

han

1. there

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?an/
• Rhymes: -an

Verb

han

1. third-person plural present indicative form of haver

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??an]

Noun

han f

1. genitive plural of hana

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hann (dative hánum).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /han/, [?han]

Pronoun

han (genitive hans, accusative ham)

1. he

See also

References

• “han,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Noun

han c (singular definite hannen, plural indefinite hanner)

1. male, he

Inflection

References

• “han,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /an/

Verb

han

1. third-person plural present indicative of haber

German

Verb

han

1. (archaic or dialectal) Alternative form of haben
   • 1812, Brothers Grimm, Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, p.138 - Der gescheidte Hans

Gwich'in

Etymology

Cognate with Tlingit héen (“water, river”).

Noun

han

1. river

Japanese

Romanization

han

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Khasi

Noun

han

1. duck

Mandarin

Romanization

han

1. Nonstandard spelling of h?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of hán.
3. Nonstandard spelling of h?n.
4. Nonstandard spelling of hàn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Etymology

Contracted infinitive and plural present of haven.

Verb

han

1. (transitive) Alternative form of haven - Piers Plowman.

Norman

Etymology

From Old Norse hampr.

Noun

han m (plural hans)

1. (Jersey) galangal

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??n/

Adjective

han

1. this

   Synonym: ev

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “han”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hann

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?n/
• Homophones: hann, hand
• Rhymes: -?n

Pronoun

han

1. he, him

See also

References

• “han” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse hann

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?n?/ (example of pronunciation)

Pronoun

han

1. he, him, it (third person singular, masculine)

Usage notes

Han is used to refer not only to masculine persons, but any masculine noun. E.g.: Bilen er fin. Eg likar han. - The car is nice. I like it.

See also

References

• “han” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hann.

Pronoun

han

1. he / it (masculine nominative pronoun)

Descendants

• Danish: han

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse hann.

Pronoun

han

1. he

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: han

Portuguese

Adjective

han (invariable, comparable)

1. Han Chinese (referring to the largest ethnic group indigenous to China)

Noun

han m (plural han or hans)

1. Han Chinese (member of the largest ethnic group indigenous to China)

Rohingya

Noun

han

1. ear

Romanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (han), from Persian ???? (xân, “caravanserai”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?wes- (“to dwell”)

Noun

han n (plural hanuri)

1. inn, caravanserai

Declension

References

• han in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Samoan Plantation Pidgin

Etymology

From English hand.

Noun

han

1. arm
2. hand

Usage notes

Only used to refer to a human; for an animal, the equivalent parts are all labelled as lek.

References

• Ulrike Mosel, Tolai and Tok Pisin: the influence of the substratum on the development of New Guinea Pidgin (1980)
• Mühlhäusler, Peter (1983). "Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin", in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh: The Social Context of Creolization, 28–76.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (han), from Persian ???? (xan, “caravanserai”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xâ?n/
• Rhymes: -â?n

Noun

h?n m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. inn

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?an/, [?ãn]

Verb

han

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of haber.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of haber.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish han, from Old Norse hann, from Proto-Norse *h?na? (*h?na?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /han?/
• Homophone: hann

Pronoun

han

1. he, the third person singular, masculine, nominative case.

2. (informal, nonstandard or dialectal) him

   Synonym: (standard) honom

Declension

Tetum

Verb

han

1. to eat

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English hand.

Noun

han

1. hand
2. arm
3. foreleg (of an animal)
4. wing (of a bird)
5. branch (of a tree)
6. branch (figurative)

Derived terms

• hanwara

References

• Ulrike Mosel, Tolai and Tok Pisin: the influence of the substratum on the development of New Guinea Pidgin (1980)
• Mühlhäusler, Peter (1983). "Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin", in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh: The Social Context of Creolization, 28–76.

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /han/

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (han).

Noun

han (definite accusative han?, plural hanlar)

1. khan
2. inn (for caravans)