Kanji, the Glossary
are the logographic Chinese characters adapted from the Chinese script used in the writing of Japanese.[1]
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223 relations: Adjective, Aikido, Ainu language, Allusion, Anthology, Aomori Prefecture, Arabic numerals, Ateji, Autological word, Baekje, Blossom, Bopomofo, Braille kanji, Calque, Camellia japonica, Cangjie, Catfish, Character encoding, Chữ Hán, Chữ Nôm, China, Chinese character radicals, Chinese characters, Chinese family of scripts, Chinese influence on Japanese culture, Chinese language, Chinese name, Classical Chinese, Clerical script, Code point, Cognate, Collation, Confucianism, Content word, Cursive script (East Asia), Cyrillic script, Dai Kan-Wa Jiten, Daijirin, Daijisen, Diacritic, Ditto mark, Doublet (linguistics), Earthly Branches, East Asian typography, Edo period, Emoji, Emperor Ōjin, Emperor Guangwu of Han, Emperor Shun of Song, Empress Suiko, ... Expand index (173 more) »
- Culture of East Asia
- East Asia
- Japanese writing system terms
- Logographic writing systems
- Southeast Asia
- Writing systems using Chinese characters
Adjective
An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.
Aikido
Aikido (合気道, 合氣道) is a modern Japanese martial art which is split into many different styles including Iwama Ryu, Iwama Shin Shin Aiki Shuren Kai, Shodokan Aikido, Yoshinkan, Renshinkai, Aikikai, and Ki Aikido.
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Ainu language
Ainu (アイヌ・イタㇰ), or more precisely Hokkaido Ainu (北海道アイヌ語), is a language spoken by a few elderly members of the Ainu people on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.
Allusion
Allusion is a figure of speech, in which an object or circumstance from an unrelated context is referred to covertly or indirectly.
Anthology
In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs, or related fiction/non-fiction excerpts by different authors.
Aomori Prefecture
(a̠o̞mo̞ɾʲikẽ̞ɴ) is a prefecture of Japan in the Tōhoku region.
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Arabic numerals
The ten Arabic numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are the most commonly used symbols for writing numbers.
Ateji
In modern Japanese, principally refers to kanji used to phonetically represent native or borrowed words with less regard to the underlying meaning of the characters. Kanji and Ateji are Japanese writing system terms.
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Autological word
An autological word (or homological word) expresses a property that it also possesses.
See Kanji and Autological word
Baekje
Baekje or Paekche was a Korean kingdom located in southwestern Korea from 18 BC to 660 AD.
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Blossom
In botany, blossoms are the flowers of stone fruit trees (genus Prunus) and of some other plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely for a period of time in spring.
Bopomofo
Bopomofo, also called Zhuyin Fuhao, or simply Zhuyin, is a transliteration system for Standard Chinese and other Sinitic languages.
Braille kanji
is a system of braille for transcribing written Japanese.
Calque
In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation.
See Kanji and Calque
Camellia japonica
Camellia japonica, known as common camellia, or Japanese camellia, is a species of Camellia, a flowering plant genus in the family Theaceae.
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Cangjie
Cangjie is a legendary ancient Chinese figure said to have been an official historian of the Yellow Emperor and the inventor of Chinese characters.
Catfish
Catfish (or catfishes; order Siluriformes or Nematognathi) are a diverse group of ray-finned fish.
Character encoding
Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using digital computers.
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Chữ Hán
Chữ Hán (literally 'Han characters') are the Chinese characters that were used to write Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary in Vietnamese and Literary Chinese (Hán văn). They were officially used in Vietnam after the Red River Delta region was incorporated into the Han dynasty and continued to be used until the early 20th century (111 BC1919 AD) where usage of Literary Chinese was abolished alongside the Confucian court examinations causing chữ Hán to be no longer used in favour of the Vietnamese alphabet. Kanji and chữ Hán are culture of East Asia, east Asia, logographic writing systems, Southeast Asia and writing systems using Chinese characters.
Chữ Nôm
Chữ Nôm is a logographic writing system formerly used to write the Vietnamese language. Kanji and Chữ Nôm are logographic writing systems and writing systems using Chinese characters.
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
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Chinese character radicals
A radical, or indexing component, is a visually prominent component of a Chinese character under which the character is traditionally listed in a Chinese dictionary.
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Chinese characters
Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture. Kanji and Chinese characters are culture of East Asia, east Asia, logographic writing systems and Southeast Asia.
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Chinese family of scripts
The Chinese family of scripts includes writing systems used to write various East Asian languages, that ultimately descend from the oracle bone script invented in the Yellow River valley during the Shang dynasty. Kanji and Chinese family of scripts are writing systems using Chinese characters.
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Chinese influence on Japanese culture
Chinese influence on Japanese culture refers to the impact of Chinese influences transmitted through or originating in China on Japanese institutions, culture, language and society.
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Chinese language
Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.
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Chinese name
Chinese names are personal names used by individuals from Greater China and other parts of the Sinophone world. Kanji and Chinese name are east Asia and Southeast Asia.
Classical Chinese
Classical Chinese is the language in which the classics of Chinese literature were written, from.
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Clerical script
The clerical script, sometimes also chancery script, is a style of Chinese writing that evolved from the late Warring States period to the Qin dynasty. Kanji and clerical script are logographic writing systems.
Code point
A code point, codepoint or code position is a particular position in a table, where the position has been assigned a meaning.
Cognate
In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in a common parent language.
Collation
Collation is the assembly of written information into a standard order.
Confucianism
Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China, and is variously described as a tradition, philosophy (humanistic or rationalistic), religion, theory of government, or way of life.
Content word
Content words, in linguistics, are words that possess semantic content and contribute to the meaning of the sentence in which they occur.
Cursive script (East Asia)
Cursive script (cǎoshū;, sōshotai;, choseo), often referred to as grass script, is a script style used in Chinese and East Asian calligraphy. Kanji and Cursive script (East Asia) are logographic writing systems.
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Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script or simply Slavic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia.
Dai Kan-Wa Jiten
The is a Japanese dictionary of kanji (Chinese characters) compiled by Tetsuji Morohashi.
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Daijirin
is a comprehensive single-volume Japanese dictionary edited by, and first published by in 1988.
Daijisen
The is a general-purpose Japanese dictionary published by Shogakukan in 1995 and 1998.
Diacritic
A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph.
Ditto mark
The ditto mark is a shorthand sign, used mostly in hand-written text, indicating that the words or figures above it are to be repeated.
Doublet (linguistics)
In etymology, two or more words in the same language are called doublets or etymological twins or twinlings (or possibly triplets, and so forth) when they have different phonological forms but the same etymological root.
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Earthly Branches
The Earthly Branches (also called the Terrestrial Branches or the 12-cycle) are a system of twelve ordered symbols used throughout East Asia.
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East Asian typography
East Asian typography is the application of typography to the writing systems used for the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese languages.
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Edo period
The, also known as the, is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyo.
Emoji
An emoji (plural emoji or emojis; 絵文字) is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram, or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. Kanji and emoji are Japanese writing system and Japanese writing system terms.
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Emperor Ōjin
, also known as (alternatively spelled 譽田別命, 誉田別命, 品陀和気命, 譽田分命, 誉田別尊, 品陀別命) or, was the 15th (possibly legendary) Emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
Emperor Guangwu of Han
Emperor Guangwu of Han (15 January 5 BC29 March AD 57), born Liu Xiu (劉秀), courtesy name Wenshu (文叔), was a Chinese monarch.
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Emperor Shun of Song
Emperor Shun of Liu Song ((劉)宋順帝; 8 August 469 – 23 June 479), personal name Liu Zhun (劉準), courtesy name Zhongmou (仲謀), childhood name Zhiguan (智觀), was the last emperor of the Liu Song dynasty of China.
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Empress Suiko
(554 – 15 April 628) was the 33rd monarch of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō): She introduced Buddhism in Japan and built many Buddhist templed, but she held the balance between Buddhism and Shintoism.
Etymology
Etymology (The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the scientific study of words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time".) is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes.
Extended shinjitai
is the extension of the shinjitai (officially simplified kanji). Kanji and Extended shinjitai are Japanese writing system and Japanese writing system terms.
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Five kings of Wa
The were kings of ancient Japan who sent envoys to China during the 5th century to strengthen the legitimacy of their claims to power by gaining the recognition of a Chinese emperor during the chaotic period of the Northern and Southern dynasties, when either dynasty was desperate to gain legitimacy over the other by trying to assert itself as the granter of official titles, through garnering as many foreign countries willing to receive titles.
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Furigana
is a Japanese reading aid consisting of smaller kana (syllabic characters) printed either above or next to kanji (logographic characters) or other characters to indicate their pronunciation. Kanji and Furigana are Japanese writing system and Japanese writing system terms.
Given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname.
Glyph
A glyph is any kind of purposeful mark.
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Gojūon
In the Japanese language, the is a traditional system ordering kana characters by their component phonemes, roughly analogous to alphabetical order.
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Government of Japan
The Government of Japan is the central government of Japan.
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Grammatical particle
In grammar, the term particle (abbreviated) has a traditional meaning, as a part of speech that cannot be inflected, and a modern meaning, as a function word (functor) associated with another word or phrase in order to impart meaning.
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Greek alphabet
The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC.
Haiku
is a type of short form poetry that originated in Japan, and can be traced back from the influence of traditional Chinese poetry.
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Hakone
is a town in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
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Han Chinese
The Han Chinese or the Han people, or colloquially known as the Chinese are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China.
Han dynasty
The Han dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu.
Han unification
Han unification is an effort by the authors of Unicode and the Universal Character Set to map multiple character sets of the Han characters of the so-called CJK languages into a single set of unified characters.
Hanja
Hanja, alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters used to write the Korean language. Kanji and Hanja are culture of East Asia, east Asia, logographic writing systems, Southeast Asia and writing systems using Chinese characters.
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Hanshin Tigers
The are a Nippon Professional Baseball team playing in the Central League.
Heavenly Stems
The ten Heavenly Stems (or Celestial Stems) are a system of ordinals indigenous to China and used throughout East Asia, first attested during the Shang dynasty as the names of the ten days of the week.
Heian period
The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185.
Hiragana
is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana as well as kanji. Kanji and Hiragana are Japanese writing system and Japanese writing system terms.
History of China
The history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area.
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Hokkaido
is the second-largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region.
Homograph
A homograph (from the ὁμός, homós 'same' and γράφω, gráphō 'write') is a word that shares the same written form as another word but has a different meaning.
Homophone
A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same (to a varying extent) as another word but differs in meaning.
Honshu
, historically called, is the largest and most populous island of Japan.
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Hyōgai kanji
, also known as, is a term for Japanese kanji outside the two major lists of jōyō kanji, which are taught in primary and secondary school, and the jinmeiyō kanji, which are additional kanji that are officially allowed for use in personal names.
Hybrid word
A hybrid word or hybridism is a word that etymologically derives from at least two languages.
Ideogram
An ideogram or ideograph (from Greek 'idea' + 'to write') is a symbol that represents an idea or concept independent of any particular language.
Imperial Japanese Army
The (IJA) was the principal ground force of the Empire of Japan.
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Inflection
In linguistic morphology, inflection (less commonly, inflexion) is a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and definiteness.
Inkstone
An inkstone is traditional Chinese stationery.
International System of Units
The International System of Units, internationally known by the abbreviation SI (from French Système international d'unités), is the modern form of the metric system and the world's most widely used system of measurement.
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Iteration mark
Iteration marks are characters or punctuation marks that represent a duplicated character or word.
James Heisig
James Wallace Heisig (born 1944) is a philosopher who specialises in the field of philosophy of religion.
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
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Japanese dictionary
have a history that began over 1300 years ago when Japanese Buddhist priests, who wanted to understand Chinese sutras, adapted Chinese character dictionaries.
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Japanese grammar
Japanese is an agglutinative, synthetic, mora-timed language with simple phonotactics, a pure vowel system, phonemic vowel and consonant length, and a lexically significant pitch-accent.
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Japanese Industrial Standards
are the standards used for industrial activities in Japan, coordinated by the Japanese Industrial Standards Committee (JISC) and published by the Japanese Standards Association (JSA).
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Japanese language
is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.
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Japanese name
in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name.
Japanese script reform
The Japanese script reform is the attempt to correlate standard spoken Japanese with the written word, which began during the Meiji period.
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Japanese writing system
The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.
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Jōyō kanji
The are those kanji listed on the, officially announced by the Japanese Ministry of Education. Kanji and Jōyō kanji are Japanese writing system.
Jin dynasty (266–420)
The Jin dynasty or Jin Empire, sometimes distinguished as the or the, was an imperial dynasty in China that existed from 266 to 420.
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Jinmeiyō kanji
The are a set of 863 Chinese characters known as "name kanji" in English.
JIS X 0208
JIS X 0208 is a 2-byte character set specified as a Japanese Industrial Standard, containing 6879 graphic characters suitable for writing text, place names, personal names, and so forth in the Japanese language.
JIS X 0212
JIS X 0212 is a Japanese Industrial Standard defining a coded character set for encoding supplementary characters for use in Japanese.
JIS X 0213
JIS X 0213 is a Japanese Industrial Standard defining coded character sets for encoding the characters used in Japan.
Jurchen script
The Jurchen script (Jurchen) was the writing system used to write the Jurchen language, the language of the Jurchen people who created the Jin Empire in northeastern China in the 12th–13th centuries.
Kamikaze
, officially, were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who flew suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, intending to destroy warships more effectively than with conventional air attacks.
Kamo no Mabuchi
was a kokugaku scholar, poet and philologist during mid-Edo period Japan.
Kana
are syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae. Kanji and Kana are Japanese writing system and Japanese writing system terms.
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Kanbun
Kanbun (漢文 'Han writing') is a system for writing Literary Chinese used in Japan from the Nara period until the 20th century. Kanji and Kanbun are Japanese writing system.
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Kanji Kentei
The evaluates one's knowledge of kanji.
Kanji of the Year
The is a character chosen by the through a national ballot in Japan, starting in 1995.
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Katakana
is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). Kanji and Katakana are Japanese writing system and Japanese writing system terms.
Kōjien
is a single-volume Japanese dictionary first published by Iwanami Shoten in 1955.
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Keisei Narita Airport Line
The is a Japanese railway line connecting Keisei-Takasago Station and Narita Airport Terminal 1 Station.
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Khitan small script
The Khitan small script was one of two writing systems used for the now-extinct Khitan language.
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King of Na gold seal
The King of Na gold seal (漢委奴国王印) is a solid gold seal discovered in the year 1784 on Shikanoshima Island in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.
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Kobe
Kobe (Kōbe), officially, is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.
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Kojiki
The, also sometimes read as or, is an early Japanese chronicle of myths, legends, hymns, genealogies, oral traditions, and semi-historical accounts down to 641 concerning the origin of the Japanese archipelago, the, and the Japanese imperial line.
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Kokuji
In Japanese, or are kanji created in Japan rather than borrowed from China. Kanji and Kokuji are Japanese writing system and Japanese writing system terms.
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Kun'yomi
, is a reading based on the pronunciation of a native Japanese word, or yamato kotoba, that closely approximated the meaning of the corresponding Chinese character when it was introduced. Kanji and Kun'yomi are Japanese writing system terms.
Kyōiku kanji
The, sometimes called the, are those kanji listed on the, a list of 1,026 kanji and associated readings developed and maintained by the Japanese Ministry of Education that prescribes which kanji, and which readings of kanji, Japanese students should learn from first grade to the sixth grade of elementary school.
Kyoto
Kyoto (Japanese: 京都, Kyōto), officially, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu.
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Kyushu
is the third-largest island of Japan's four main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands (i.e. excluding Okinawa).
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Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.
Latin script
The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.
Lesser cuckoo
The lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus) is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae.
Lexicalization
In linguistics, lexicalization is the process of adding words, set phrases, or word patterns to a language's lexicon.
List of jōyō kanji
The system of representing written Japanese currently consists of 2,136 characters. Kanji and List of jōyō kanji are Japanese writing system.
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List of kanji radicals by stroke count
Kanji radicals are graphemes, or graphical parts, that are used in organizing Japanese kanji in dictionaries.
See Kanji and List of kanji radicals by stroke count
Literacy
Literacy is the ability to read and write.
Literary and colloquial readings
Differing literary and colloquial readings for certain Chinese characters are a common feature of many Chinese varieties, and the reading distinctions for these linguistic doublets often typify a dialect group.
See Kanji and Literary and colloquial readings
Literature
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems.
Loanwords in Japanese
is Japanese for "loan word", and indicates a transcription into Japanese. Kanji and Loanwords in Japanese are Japanese writing system terms.
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Logogram
In a written language, a logogram (from Ancient Greek 'word', and 'that which is drawn or written'), also logograph or lexigraph, is a written character that represents a semantic component of a language, such as a word or morpheme. Kanji and logogram are logographic writing systems.
Lophius
Members of the genus Lophius, also sometimes called monkfish, fishing-frogs, frog-fish, and sea-devils, are various species of lophiid anglerfishes found in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
MacOS
macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.
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Mainland China
Mainland China is the territory under direct administration of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the aftermath of the Chinese Civil War.
Man'yōgana
is an ancient writing system that uses Chinese characters to represent the Japanese language. Kanji and Man'yōgana are Japanese writing system.
Man'yōshū
The is the oldest extant collection of Japanese (poetry in Classical Japanese), compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period.
Manchu language
Manchu (Manchu:, Romanization) is a critically endangered East Asian Tungusic language native to the historical region of Manchuria in Northeast China.
Manga
are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan.
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Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Meiji era
The was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.
Meiji Restoration
The Meiji Restoration (Meiji Ishin), referred to at the time as the, and also known as the Meiji Renovation, Revolution, Regeneration, Reform, or Renewal, was a political event that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji.
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Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
The is one of the eleven ministries of Japan that composes part of the executive branch of the government of Japan.
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Mnemonic
A mnemonic device or memory device is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval in the human memory, often by associating the information with something that is easier to remember.
Mokkan
are wooden tablets found at Japanese archaeological sites.
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Monastery
A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits).
Mongolian language
Mongolian is the principal language of the Mongolic language family that originated in the Mongolian Plateau.
See Kanji and Mongolian language
Monkey King
The Monkey King or Sun Wukong is a literary, and religious figure best known as one of the main players in the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West (first).
Morpheme
A morpheme is the smallest meaningful constituent of a linguistic expression.
Names of Japan
The word Japan is an exonym, and is used (in one form or another) by many languages.
Nanori
are the often non-standard kanji character readings (pronunciations) found almost exclusively in Japanese names. Kanji and Nanori are Japanese writing system terms.
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Narita, Chiba
is a city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
Newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.
Nihon Shoki
The, sometimes translated as The Chronicles of Japan, is the second-oldest book of classical Japanese history.
Noun
In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and ideas.
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Occupation of Japan
Japan was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II from the surrender of the Empire of Japan on September 2, 1945, at the war's end until the Treaty of San Francisco took effect on April 28, 1952.
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Okurigana
are kana suffixes following kanji stems in Japanese written words. Kanji and Okurigana are Japanese writing system.
Old Chinese
Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese.
Old Japanese
is the oldest attested stage of the Japanese language, recorded in documents from the Nara period (8th century).
Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia (or rarely echoism) is a type of word, or the process of creating a word, that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.
Oracle bone script
Oracle bone script is the oldest attested form of written Chinese, dating to the late 2nd millennium BC.
See Kanji and Oracle bone script
Origami
) is the Japanese art of paper folding.
Orthography
An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word boundaries, emphasis, and punctuation.
Osaka
is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan, and one of the three major cities of Japan (Tokyo-Osaka-Nagoya).
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Part of speech
In grammar, a part of speech or part-of-speech (abbreviated as POS or PoS, also known as word class or grammatical category) is a category of words (or, more generally, of lexical items) that have similar grammatical properties.
Phonetic complement
A phonetic complement is a phonetic symbol used to disambiguate word characters (logograms) that have multiple readings, in mixed logographic-phonetic scripts such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, Akkadian cuneiform, Japanese, and Mayan.
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Pictogram
A pictogram (also pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto) is a graphical symbol that conveys meaning through its visual resemblance to a physical object.
Pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese.
See Kanji and Pinyin
Private Use Areas
In Unicode, a Private Use Area (PUA) is a range of code points that, by definition, will not be assigned characters by the Unicode Consortium.
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Pronunciation
Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken.
Qin (state)
Qin (or Ch'in) was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty.
Rebus
A rebus is a puzzle device that combines the use of illustrated pictures with individual letters to depict words or phrases.
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Regular script
The regular script is the newest of the major Chinese script styles, emerging during the Three Kingdoms period, and stylistically mature by the 7th century.
Remembering the Kanji and Remembering the Hanzi
Remembering the Kanji is a series of three volumes by James Heisig, intended to teach the 3,000 most frequent Kanji to students of the Japanese language.
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Rendaku
is a phenomenon in Japanese morphophonology that governs the voicing of the initial consonant of a non-initial portion of a compound or prefixed word. Kanji and Rendaku are Japanese writing system terms.
Romanization of Japanese
The romanization of Japanese is the use of Latin script to write the Japanese language. Kanji and romanization of Japanese are Japanese writing system.
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Ruby character
Ruby characters or rubi characters are small, annotative glosses that are usually placed above or to the right of logographic characters of languages in the East Asian cultural sphere, such as Chinese ''hanzi'', Japanese kanji, and Korean hanja, to show the logographs' pronunciation; these were formerly also used for Vietnamese chữ Hán and chữ Nôm, and may still occasionally be seen in that context when reading archaic texts. Kanji and ruby character are Japanese writing system.
Ryukyuan languages
The, also Lewchewan or Luchuan, are the indigenous languages of the Ryukyu Islands, the southernmost part of the Japanese archipelago.
See Kanji and Ryukyuan languages
Sanseidō
is a Japanese publishing company known for publishing dictionaries and textbooks.
Sapporo
(lit) is a city in Japan.
Sawndip
Sawndip (Sawndip: 𭨡𮄫) are Chinese characters used to write the Zhuang languages in the Chinese provinces of Guangxi and Yunnan. Kanji and Sawndip are logographic writing systems and writing systems using Chinese characters.
Seal script
Seal script or sigillary script is a style of writing Chinese characters that was common throughout the latter half of the 1st millennium BC. Kanji and Seal script are logographic writing systems.
Shift JIS
Shift JIS (also SJIS, MIME name Shift_JIS, known as PCK in Solaris contexts) is a character encoding for the Japanese language, originally developed by the Japanese company ASCII Corporation in conjunction with Microsoft and standardized as JIS X 0208 Appendix 1.
Shikoku
, is the smallest of the four main islands of Japan.
Shinjitai
are the simplified forms of kanji used in Japan since the promulgation of the Tōyō Kanji List in 1946. Kanji and Shinjitai are Japanese writing system terms.
Shishamo
, or Spirinchus lanceolatus, is an anadromous fish (smelt) native to Hokkaido, Japan.
Shuowen Jiezi
The Shuowen Jiezi is a Chinese dictionary compiled by Xu Shen, during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–206 CE).
Simplified Chinese characters
Simplified Chinese characters are one of two standardized character sets widely used to write the Chinese language, with the other being traditional characters.
See Kanji and Simplified Chinese characters
Sino-Japanese vocabulary
Sino-Japanese vocabulary, also known as, is a subset of Japanese vocabulary that originated in Chinese or was created from elements borrowed from Chinese.
See Kanji and Sino-Japanese vocabulary
Smile
A smile is a facial expression formed primarily by flexing the muscles at the sides of the mouth.
See Kanji and Smile
Sokuon
The is a Japanese symbol in the form of a small hiragana or katakana. Kanji and Sokuon are Japanese writing system terms.
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Standard Chinese
Standard Chinese is a modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912‒1949).
See Kanji and Standard Chinese
Stroke order
Stroke order is the order in which the strokes of a Chinese character are written. Kanji and stroke order are Japanese writing system.
Sumo
is a form of competitive full-contact wrestling where a rikishi (wrestler) attempts to force his opponent out of a circular ring (dohyō) or into touching the ground with any body part other than the soles of his feet (usually by throwing, shoving or pushing him down).
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Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers
The was the title held by General Douglas MacArthur during the United States-led Allied occupation of Japan following World War II.
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Taiwanese Hokkien
Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô), or simply Taiwanese, also known as Taiuanoe, Taigi, Taigu (Pe̍h-ōe-jī/Tâi-lô: /), Taiwanese Minnan, Hoklo and Holo, is a variety of the Hokkien language spoken natively by more than 70 percent of the population of Taiwan.
See Kanji and Taiwanese Hokkien
Tangut script
The Tangut script (Tangut) was a logographic writing system, used for writing the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty.
Tâi-uân Lô-má-jī Phing-im Hong-àn
The official romanization system for Taiwanese Hokkien in Taiwan is locally referred to as Tâi-uân Bân-lâm-gí Lô-má-jī Phing-im Hong-àn or Taiwan Minnanyu Luomazi Pinyin Fang'an, often shortened to Tâi-lô.
See Kanji and Tâi-uân Lô-má-jī Phing-im Hong-àn
Tōyō kanji
The are those kanji listed on the, which was released by the Japanese on 16 November 1946, following a reform of kanji characters of Chinese origin in the Japanese language.
Telephone
A telephone, colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly.
Tertiary education
Tertiary education, also referred to as third-level, third-stage or post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of secondary education.
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Text Encoding Initiative
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a text-centric community of practice in the academic field of digital humanities, operating continuously since the 1980s.
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Tokyo
Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.
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Toona
Toona, commonly known as redcedar, toon (also spelled tun) or toona, tooni (in India) is a genus in the mahogany family, Meliaceae, native from Afghanistan south to India, and east to North Korea, Papua New Guinea and eastern Australia.
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Traditional Chinese characters
Traditional Chinese characters are a standard set of Chinese character forms used to write Chinese languages.
See Kanji and Traditional Chinese characters
Translation
Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text.
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized.
University of Oslo
The University of Oslo (Universitetet i Oslo; Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway.
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Varieties of Chinese
There are hundreds of local Chinese language varieties forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, many of which are not mutually intelligible.
See Kanji and Varieties of Chinese
Verb
A verb is a word (part of speech) that in syntax generally conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand).
See Kanji and Verb
Wa (Japan)
Wa is the oldest attested name of Japan and ethnonym of the Japanese people.
Wago
are native Japanese words, meaning those words in Japanese that have been inherited from Old Japanese, rather than being borrowed at some stage.
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Wani (scholar)
Wani (Wani, Wanikishi) is a semi-legendary scholar who is said to have been sent to Japan by Baekje of southwestern Korea during the reign of Emperor Ōjin.
Wasei-kango
are those words in the Japanese language composed of Chinese morphemes but invented in Japan rather than borrowed from China.
Wisteria
Wisteria is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae (Leguminosae).
Word stem
In linguistics, a word stem is a part of a word responsible for its lexical meaning.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Xu Shen
Xu Shen was a Chinese calligrapher, philologist, politician, and writer of the Eastern Han dynasty (25–189 CE).
Yale romanization of Cantonese
The Yale romanization of Cantonese was developed by Gerard P. Kok for his and Parker Po-fei Huang's textbook Speak Cantonese initially circulated in looseleaf form in 1952 but later published in 1958.
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Yamato
was originally the area around today's Sakurai City in Nara Prefecture of Japan, which became Yamato Province and by extension a name for the whole of Japan.
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Yamato period
The is the period of Japanese history when the Imperial court ruled from modern-day Nara Prefecture, then known as Yamato Province.
Yayoi period
The started in the late Neolithic period in Japan, continued through the Bronze Age, and towards its end crossed into the Iron Age.
Yi script
The Yi scripts (Yi: ꆈꌠꁱꂷ nuosu bburma) are two scripts used to write the Yi languages; Classical Yi (an ideogram script), and the later Yi syllabary.
Yojijukugo
A is a Japanese lexeme consisting of four kanji (Chinese characters). Kanji and Yojijukugo are Japanese writing system terms.
Zen
Zen (Japanese; from Chinese "Chán"; in Korean: Sŏn, and Vietnamese: Thiền) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as the Chan School (禪宗, chánzōng, "meditation school") or the Buddha-mind school (佛心宗, fóxīnzōng), and later developed into various sub-schools and branches.
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Zhonghua Zihai
Zhonghua Zihai is the largest Chinese character dictionary available for print, compiled in 1994 and consisting of 85,568 different characters.
Zhuang languages
The Zhuang languages (autonym:,, pre-1982:, Sawndip: 話僮, from vah, 'language' and Cuengh, 'Zhuang') are the more than a dozen Tai languages spoken by the Zhuang people of Southern China in the province of Guangxi and adjacent parts of Yunnan and Guangdong.
See Kanji and Zhuang languages
See also
Culture of East Asia
- Chinese characters
- Chinese culture
- Chinese zodiac
- Chữ Hán
- Cinema of East Asia
- Culture of Hong Kong
- Culture of Japan
- Culture of Korea
- Culture of Macau
- Culture of North Korea
- Culture of South Korea
- Culture of Taiwan
- East Asian age reckoning
- East Asian architecture
- East Asian art
- East Asian cuisine
- East Asian influence on Northeast India
- East Asian literature
- East Asian mythology
- East Asian philosophy
- East Asian studies
- Four Gentlemen
- Hanja
- Hell money
- Kanji
- Languages of East Asia
- List of Confucian states and dynasties
- Lists of East Asian surnames
- Little China (ideology)
- Mirror Flower, Water Moon
- Music of East Asia
- Nyaa Torrents
- Pigtail
- Pinkerton syndrome
- Princess sickness
- Protected appointments system for hereditary privileges in Asia
- Sansukumi-ken
- Sinicization
- Sino-Xenic vocabularies
- Sinocentrism
- Sinosphere
- Surgical mask
- Tibetan culture
- Tokutei Asia
- White Day
East Asia
- Chinese New Year
- Chinese characters
- Chinese name
- Chữ Hán
- CrossAsia
- Culture of East Asia
- East Asia
- East Asia Economic Caucus
- East Asian people
- Eastern Himalayas
- Economy of East Asia
- Ethnic groups in East Asia
- Eurasian Steppe
- Far East
- Hanja
- Himalayas
- History of East Asia
- Inner Asia
- Kanji
- Mugulü
- Northeast Asia
- Outer Manchuria
- Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
- Sinosphere
- Tartary
- Tibet
- Tropical Asia
Japanese writing system terms
- Asahi characters
- Ateji
- Chōonpu
- Dakuten and handakuten
- Emoji
- Extended shinjitai
- Furigana
- Half-width kana
- Hiragana
- Kana
- Kanji
- Katakana
- Kokuji
- Kun'yomi
- Kyūjitai
- List of Chinese–Japanese false friends
- Loanwords in Japanese
- Nanori
- On'yomi
- Rendaku
- Ryakuji
- Shinjitai
- Sokuon
- Wasei-eigo
- Yojijukugo
- Yōon
Logographic writing systems
- Chinese characters
- Chữ Hán
- Chữ Nôm
- Clerical script
- Cursive script (East Asia)
- Debate on traditional and simplified Chinese characters
- East Asian calligraphy
- Elamite cuneiform
- Graphic pejoratives in written Chinese
- Hanja
- Hieroglyphs
- History of writing in Vietnam
- Kanji
- Lango (app)
- List of Chinese–Japanese false friends
- Logogram
- Mesoamerican writing systems
- Miꞌkmaw hieroglyphs
- Morphogram
- Sawndip
- Seal script
- Semi-cursive script
- Sitelen Pona
- Sui script
- Taito (kanji)
- Toki Pona
- Written Chinese
Southeast Asia
- ASEAN
- Bangle
- Blue-throated bee-eater
- Blyxa octandra
- CLMV
- Chinese New Year
- Chinese characters
- Chinese name
- Chữ Hán
- Culture of Southeast Asia
- Dvaravati
- East Asia Economic Caucus
- Economy of Southeast Asia
- Ethnic groups in Southeast Asia
- Far East
- Farther India
- Geography of Southeast Asia
- Hanja
- History of Southeast Asia
- Human trafficking in Southeast Asia
- Kanji
- Languages of Southeast Asia
- Oil reserves in Southeast Asia
- Patani
- Piracy and armed robbery in the Singapore Strait
- Piracy in the Strait of Malacca
- Post - 1500 Southeast Asia Archaeology
- Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
- Sinosphere
- South East Asia Cultural Organisation
- South Seas Society (Singapore)
- Southeast Asia
- Southeast Asian Press Alliance
- Southeast Asian countries
- Southeast Asian people
- Southeast Asian studies
- The Art of Not Being Governed
- Tropical Asia
- West Tegal, Tegal
Writing systems using Chinese characters
- CJK characters
- Chinese family of scripts
- Chữ Hán
- Chữ Nôm
- Hanja
- History of writing in Vietnam
- Jingtang Jiaoyu
- Kanji
- List of Chinese–Japanese false friends
- Saam kap dai
- Sawndip
- Sichuanese characters
- Singapore Chinese characters
- Sino-Xenic vocabularies
- Written Cantonese
- Written Chinese
- Written Hokkien
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji
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