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kanji

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1. kanji - Noun

2. Kanji - Proper noun

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(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]

Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language.
I know about a thousand kanji.

A North Indian fermented drink made with beetroot,black mustard seeds,carrot etc

Drink made from sugarcane vinegar

Rice gruel made by fermentation of rice and tastes sour

Kanji

Alternative letter-case form of kanji

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A guideline created by the Japanese Ministry of Education, the list of kyōiku kanji ("education kanji", a subset of jōyō kanji ), specifies the 1,006 simple characters a child is to learn by the end of sixth grade. Source: Internet

Adding to the confusion, the labels are written in Kanji, Hiragana, or Katakana. Source: Internet

An early term for warrior, "uruwashii", was written with a kanji that combined the characters for literary study ("bun" 文) and military arts ("bu" 武), and is mentioned in the Heike Monogatari (late 12th century). Source: Internet

An arm tattoo of kanji symbols that have a totally different meaning from what was intended? Source: Internet

Also, because the kanji represent meaning while the furigana represent sound, one can combine the two to create puns or indicate meanings of foreign words. Source: Internet

Although words borrowed from ancient Chinese are usually written in kanji, loanwords from modern Chinese dialects which are borrowed directly use katakana rather than the Sino-Japanese on'yomi readings. Source: Internet

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