kanji
nounEtymology Borrowed from Hindi कांजी (kāñjī).
1
A North Indian fermented drink made with beetroot, black mustard seeds, carrots etc.
2
Drink made from sugarcane vinegar.
3
Rice gruel made by fermentation of rice and tastes sour.
kanji
nounUS /ˈkɑnd͡ʒi/ · /ˈkænd͡ʒi/
Etymology 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.
1
The system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters.
- Japanese is written in a mixture of kanji and kana.
2
Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language.
- I know about a thousand kanji.
- Derived terms
- jōyō kanji, kanjify