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kanji

/ˈkænd͡ʒi/

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Australia/ˈkaːnd͡ʒi/

kanji noun: the system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters.

kanji: the system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters
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Noun (1)

kanji (countable and uncountable, plural kanji or kanjis)

  1. (uncountable) 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.

Noun (2)

kanji (uncountable)

  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.

Proper noun capitalized: Kanji

Kanji

  1. Alternative letter-case form of kanji.

kanji meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

kanji in Hindi

Chinese characters in Japanese context
कांजि kāñji, कानजी kānjī, कान्जी kānjī

kanji in Marathi

Chinese characters in Japanese context
कान्जी kānjī

kanji in Urdu

Chinese characters in Japanese context
کانجی kānjī

kanji in Bengali

Chinese characters in Japanese context
জাপানী হরফ japanī hôrôf, কাঞ্জি
More languagesFewer languages
kanji in Telugu
కాంజీ, కంజి, కంజీ
kanji in Malayalam
കാഞ്ചി, കാൻജി
kanji in Kannada
ಕಾಂಜಿ, ಕಂಜಿ, ಕಾಂಜೀ
kanji in Punjabi
ਕਾਂਜੀ kāñjī
kanji in Gujarati
કાંજી, કાનજી, કાન્જી
kanji in Odia
କାଞ୍ଜି, କାଞ୍ଜୀ, କାନ୍ଜୀ
kanji in Nepali
कान्जी, कानजी
kanji in Arabic
كَانْجِي kānjī, طَابِع يَابَانِيّ ṭābiʕ yābāniyy, حَرْف يَابَانِيّ ḥarf yābāniyy
kanji in Malay
kanji
kanji in Indonesian
kanji, honji
kanji in Persian
کانجی kânji
kanji in Thai
คันจิ kan-jì
kanji in Vietnamese
chữ kanji, chữ Nhật

Forms of kanji

pluralkanji
pluralkanjis
alternative formKanji

Plural of kanji: kanji

Origin of kanji

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.

Borrowed from Hindi कांजी (kāñjī).

Words formed from kanji

Words that rhyme with kanji

Questions about kanji

What does kanji mean?
Kanji means the system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters.
What is kanji in Hindi?
Kanji in Hindi is कांजि (kāñji), कानजी (kānjī), कान्जी (kānjī). See Kanji meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is kanji?
Kanji can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce kanji?
Kanji is pronounced /ˈkænd͡ʒi/.
What is the plural of kanji?
The plural of kanji is kanji.

Words near kanji in the dictionary

  1. Kaniva
  2. kaniwa
  3. Kanizsa triangle
  4. Kanizsa triangles
  5. Kanjeevaram
  6. kanji
  7. kanjified
  8. kanjifies
  9. kanjify
  10. kanjifying
  11. kanjika

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: kanji (page history and authors); Kanji (page history and authors); kanji (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kanji (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kanji (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kanji (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kanji (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kanji (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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